who verifies pending games?
5 years ago
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

I think they're @kirkq and @Liv

Switzerland

Content Mods, Full Mods and I think some Admins too

United States

Expected time is a couple weeks. That's not very long when you consider how many requests they get.

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Iowa, USA

Like you and among so many other annoying users, your submission has only been pending for a week. Take a hike and go speedrun until we can catch up, I can be passive aggressive too y'know. There's a reason why we generally don't bother with many of the threads here, this thread is another example of why.

I've said it countless times but it'll get dealt with once we reach that point, your game isn't the only one waiting. There's nothing more to it than that, there's tons of games submitted all the time. Patience is key.

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United Kingdom

[quote]"Requests are checked manually by site staff so it might take up to 1-2 weeks depending on available time." couple weeks, you say? then they should update this information.[/quote]

A couple weeks is 1-2 weeks...

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Are you seriously now arguing over what number a couple is?

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Valhalla

"1-2 weeks..." "couple is 2 at least" I think I'm having a stroke

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Says the guy that complains about his game request not being accepted in less than a week.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

I've never quite understood why it does take so long. Seems like a game either should be approved or it shouldn't be, and it should take about 5 seconds to decide that. So if there's 100 games waiting, that might be half an hour's work or so. It is apparently more complicated than that, but my various attempts to find out why have been met with degrees of sarcasm, vagueness, secrecy and scorn. I've stopped trying to understand it.

Valhalla

lmao yeah the speedrunning community is toxic because you're getting picked on for arguing over semantics. nobody tell em about /srg/

@EmeraldAly I'm certain they receive dozens of requests a day on top of everything else the site mods have to deal with. Furthermore they have to determine whether a game should be on the site or not. Honestly there's so many threads on this in the past that asking the question instead of just clicking through the forums is pretty annoying, thus the response.

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Antarctica

@EmeraldAly It doesn’t take 5 seconds to determine if a game request should be accepted. Granted, I don’t know the process, but I can assume there’s multiple steps to it.

  • Make sure the game doesn’t already exist on the site.
  • Check the provided information link about the game to make sure the game is fully released as well as to better understand the type of game it is (which can help to verify the incoming run).
  • Verify the run. You can’t approve a game request if the run isn’t legit. I’m not sure if the full run is always watched, but I know they watch a good portion of it at least.
  • Part of the above is to also make sure that a legit attempt was made at the run (ie. the run shows some attempt at routing and strats as opposed to a playthrough).

I’m sure there’s a number of games that probably can be rejected in 5 seconds like all the crappy flash ones, but I’d imagine that a legit game request takes more thinking and research than you’re thinking it does.

Again I could be off base about what is actually done, but the above is what I can guess the process is based off of what I’ve seen Mods say over the years about the process.

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United States

People have lives outside of this site and some times of the year many countries have celebrations and holidays so there is that to consider too. December tends to be a wash at least in the USA. I was half expecting my request to get evaluated after New Years, but that did not happen so that's cool.

Iowa, USA

@EmeraldAly https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/10u5x

Quite sure Liv and Oh_DeeR gave you the answer. Seems you ignored it.

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New York, USA

A little too much hostility towards the guy who asked the question IMO.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

@Dangerless the only answer they gave was "it depends, because stuff and things."

It's fine. They're obviously not obligated to tell me anything (especially Oh Deer, who I know outside this website and super don't get along with). Timmiluvs' response on the previous page is the most direct answer to the question I've ever seen (though I'd contend -- and quite irrelevantly, as it's not my "job" we're talking about here -- that it shouldn't be necessary to take all those steps every time).

Iowa, USA

@CriscoWild Seems to be both sides, but to be fair this is a more universal annoyance that comes up too often.

The link I posted up above actually talks about this a bit.....and its something we've gone on repeat many times. Patience really is key.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

And I actually responded to that thread originally (I thought maybe you'd be able to see that, as a mod, I guess that's not so), but I deleted my last post because it was only gonna get me in trouble.

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

Mostly I'm amazed that there's enough games still out there for this to even be an issue. What do, like 5 new games come out a week, maybe? And there's still hundreds of requests a day? That's kind of amazing. Makes me wonder just how many games are out there.

Iowa, USA

When we say we get a lot of game requests, we do and its a hell of a lot more than 5 a week. Many are straight forward, many aren't, some get held back while others get dealt with to keep the queue going.

Late November I think I handled around 120+ games, it was a day before I had to pack and move so I decided to go through the entire thing myself. It took me around 12 hours (with some breaks inbetween all this) and by the time I reached the last 20 or less I was really tired of looking at the queue and exhausted from researching and determining what is acceptable with SRCs policy (or to be more clear with that, the game request guidelines page). I did this because I was moving and wanted everyone to have a break.

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