In late August it was brought to the Discord moderators' attention that a certain runner had been expressing some extremely abhorrent views in community members' Twitch chats, private DMs, and their own stream. After careful consideration it was decided that this behavior was in clear violation of rule #2 (No racism/sexism/bigotry of any kind on any platform) of the Discord server and the user was banned from the Discord. We would like to reiterate that rule #2 does not exist to punish people for having certain views; rather, it exists to ensure that present and future members of the community are respected. This should be a space where all walks of life feel welcome to participate in the discussion, action, and celebration of Mega Man X speedrunning, without having to defend core aspects of their identity.

Following the Discord ban the discussion was continued among mods of the x1 leaderboard. As far as the leaderboard mods were concerned, there were three options: we could do nothing, we could remove the times completely, or we could anonymize the entries. The moderators believe that a community driven leaderboard of self submitted runs is more than just some objective list of times, it is a representation of the community as a whole. As such, it is not required that any leaderboard promote users who engage in behavior that goes against community values. To that end, the decision was made to anonymize the time by removing the users name and stripping the video of all references to the runner. The run and entry itself will be preserved for the sake of posterity, leaderboard accuracy, and learning purposes.

Both mod teams realize that we made some serious mistakes. Most obviously, our communication of these issues was suboptimal and for that we apologize. However, we stand by our decisions and will continue do our best to promote a diverse, welcoming community full of all types of individuals.

Due to the difficult nature of maintaining two separate but accurate leaderboards we will no longer be accepting runs submit to speedrun.com that haven't already been submit and verified at megamanleaderboards.net. You may still submit runs to this board, but know that they will not be verified here until they are first verified on our primary leaderboard at mmlb. If a run submit here is not submit to megamanleaderboards.net within two weeks it will be rejected with a link pointing you to the proper place to submit. When submitting at megamanleaderboards.net, be sure to fill out the speedrun.com username portion of your profile to help us make sure that your runs are linked to your proper srcom account. Any questions or concerns can be directed to the mods either here in the forum, or via discord. Thanks for your cooperation.