I'm highly for option 3, and agree with twitchy's idea to add a mod comment that notes that those times were submitted before the load remover / the runner chose not to use it and as such they have been edited to provide a cleaner leaderboard.

A few weeks ago when Luna beat Cliffs' run with a better IGT but worse RTA the leaderboards were briefly changed to prioritize IGT because of it (see: ) which resulted in a completely nonsensical leaderboard. For me, it goes without saying that prioritizing by IGT when not all runs have an IGT is just a mess.

A lot more people now have IGT times on the leaderboard than they do a few weeks ago, and very few runners who are actively running / in the community still only have an RTA timing. I would say that if Info is willing to time out loads for anyone who asks then those active runners should be able to ask, especially Blueberrian as he runs on PS4 and Revas has had his loads timed out for fairness. I'd also like to do option 3 and prioritize by IGT to get Revas higher on the leaderboards. He's put a lot of effort into playing this game on an inferior platform and I think that deserves to be shown by his standing.

Option 4 seems arbitrary and if we were going to time out a "base loads" time for everyone then we may as well just do a quick-and-easy method of timing out loads by pulling up a timer and watching the run straight through and pausing it whenever loading is occuring, to the best of someone's ability. That would sadly be MORE accurate than just removing 4 minutes of loads for everyone, so I'm against option 4. And I agree that option 5 just seems messy.

Okay, sorry for the rambling. Hopefully we can reach a good compromise here!