England"There should be absolutely zero expectation that moderators will attempt to find all the runs to populate their leaderboard. It should be up to the users of the community to populate the leaderboards with their runs since it's technically a community leaderboard."
I'm curious what leads you to this conclusion. There's nothing about me speedrunning a given game that necessitates that I be part of whatever community exists around the game, or curate the leaderboard for it.
If, however, I'm a moderator for that game, then I have voluntarily taken up the position of being a community figurehead and maintaining/curating the leaderboard for it. It just seems evidently clear that moderators bear a responsibility in this regard that runners do not.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that as a runner you should submit your times to the boards, I just think that "Mods have no responsibility, it's the community's job to populate the boards" is an odd position.
It's amazing how the claim "Speedrun.com is meant to be the definitive source for speedrunning content, so should therefore be trusted as reliably tracking the best-known times" is somehow interpreted as wrong.
And to be clear, it is the moderators' responsibility to ensure the boards are updated with the best-known times. That's the purpose of the leaderboard. The question of runners "Not wanting their times here" is a different question, and one without a definitive answer, but I personally lean very heavily towards the "That's not your decision" camp. You're a speedrunner, you do speedruns, it's natural that your speedruns end up on a leaderboard whose purpose is to track the best times. Being adamant that you don't want your time hosted on this site is much more of a dick move than being a moderator who adds times for people who don't 'want' them.
Speedrun.com is supposed to be the most comprehensive and authoritative source for known speedruns of the games hosted on the website. The WRs listed on this site should be viewed as the best known times anywhere, and can reliably be viewed as world records for their respective games.
If there are better times elsewhere, then they should be posted on the Speedrun.com leaderboards.
Nobody begins speedrunning by immediately producing WR-tier times. The only time you should ever be worried about beating is your own time. If MK Wii is what you would have the most fun playing, go do that.
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll renew this tonight.
Why do people even respond to these threads when the OP invariably never interacts with it again
Better question is why do you want to delete your own run?
In general terms, people do need to learn some patience and just chill until they hear something back.
I know we're all speedrunners and we're accustomed to doing stuff fast, but it's not like your request is gonna go anywhere. It sits there until it gets addressed, as long as that's not a process that's taking weeks and weeks, it's not a problem. If the request queue was deleted every two weeks and unactioned games needed to be re-submitted, that would be cause for concern, but that's not the case here so welp.
^ This, slowdown is not something to be avoided by utilising an emulator. If slowdown occurs on original hardware, it's the emulator's job to accurately reproduce that slowdown, or else it provides an unfair advantage and should not be used for competition.
As for ways to avoid the slowdown naturally occurring on console, from what little I know of Lemmings it will likely be determined by how many objects are onscreen. Once you have 100 lemmings on the map, the game is likely to run much slower than normal. My first guess on a way to counteract this would be to scroll the camera so that there's as little onscreen as possible, but I'm not an expert on the game so I can't say for certain.
@Liv What you could perhaps consider is carrying on the process as normal, but introducing a 'waitlist' of sorts ie. you make it clear to people posting in the thread that you'll contact the mod in question in 7 days or something of the sort.
This way, people using the thread expecting you to do something about the situation know that their request is being seen and is in the queue to be handled, but they'll get a much faster resolution if they just take it into their own hands. Best way to get people to take responsibility for this sort of thing is to make it their best option.
I'm willing to bet that you can tell just through regular gameplay what difficulty the game is set to. ie. damage taken, damage given, AI behaviour, etc. Plenty of games have tells that show what the difficulty is set as, and the same goes for other variables. This is not rocket science.
EDIT: Looked at the thread in the Tekken 3 forum w/ moderator responses, and yep it's exactly as I said; AI behaviour follows predictable patterns based on difficulty setting.
Colour me surprised that your immediate assumption of cheating/illegitimacy was due to literally not understanding how the game works.
I will however meet you halfway on this and agree that moderators should not be verifying their own runs, and should be setting the highest example possible for others to follow. Would have cost Shirdel literally nothing to just display the settings and let another mod verify the run.
Should we be concerned that this event is less than 3 days away and there's still no games list or schedule?
What are you, 10 years old? (Let's see how many people get that one.)
At this point, all you're doing is tattling to the teacher because the big boys don't want to play with you. Then when the teacher won't do anything about it, you're tattling on them to the principal. And then tattling on the principal to the school board.
Trying to move up the 'chain of command' here is not going to achieve anything when the fundamental problem is that the leaderboards are managed by the community, and the community have cast you out as a pariah. You're not welcome at The-Elite, so you instead turn your attention to speedrun.com. Well guess what? It's still managed by the same people. If the site staff did add you as a moderator, what makes you believe for a second that you wouldn't immediately be unmodded by the rest of the team, and a huge community fallout ensuing? It is not the site staff's job to intervene in community affairs and overrule community decisions apart from exceptional cases, and this doesn't qualify. The only thing that's going to happen if you continue to pursue this is causing a lot of anger in the community, and you will not get what you want either way.
Your best move here is to duck out, get disappeared for a while, come back in the future under a different alias and keep your opinions to yourself. You can bemoan all you want about whether their decision is right or wrong, but that's not really what's important here. You have a way to get what you want, and you're not taking it because you're more interested in fueling the fire and putting yourself in worse standing.
I could realistically see someone speedrunning All War Room Maps, but I don't think it would be particularly entertaining.
I'm not sure what you mean, the rules specify that you can use any combination of Sonic + Tails / Sonic / Tails for a run.
