European Union[QUOTE=ShikenNuggets] Vilifying people on the internet doesn't really accomplish anything [/QUOTE] I thought it was pretty clear that nothing about this is with the intent of vilifying or punishing anyone. The point of this is so that we can try to have a place where moderators can see why other users are banned. This is unfortunately one of the only real ways to do it with the current situation.
Edit: That was forum post #1337
[QUOTE=diggity] public shaming?
bro. relax. [/QUOTE] If you don't want to be publically shamed, don't fucking cheat lol. I think this is great. If a top runner of one of my games randomly gets permabanned I do not want to need to spend the next year of my life arguing with site admins to find out why he was banned only to get literally nowhere.
https://www.speedrun.com/user/airporttaxissurrey https://www.speedrun.com/user/taxiairportcamranh https://www.speedrun.com/user/taxibradleyairport https://www.speedrun.com/user/taxicar https://www.speedrun.com/user/taxitailephong https://www.speedrun.com/user/taxitaithanhhung https://www.speedrun.com/user/thungcartonTaxiTai
Gotta love the broken Bavarian and Ohio flags
The forums have been neglected for years, and there is much more communication that happens over the forums compared to site DMs (which barely get used). I think a forum upgrade should very much be a top priority.
[QUOTE=XeroGoFast] I'm bothered by the sleight of hand in referring to a verifier as a moderator. It seems like Starsmiley is saying that site staff consider verifiers to be authorities on polling and changing rules in the same way that an actual moderator might be, which is absurd to me. I've never added a verifier under those expectations. Verifiers can only edit and verify runs, they specifically do not moderate the game. [/QUOTE] I completely understand what you mean, but do know that it is completely normal in a lot of communities for verifiers do have as much of a say. In fact I've never been part of a community where verifiers dont have as much of a say. From my experience most verifiers only have the role because they are new to the job and its too much to immediately give them the power to change rules and mess with categories and such.
[QUOTE=KunoDemetries] Secondly, there are no resources for other devs to achieve the same goal Severed Steel has reached. Who wouldn’t want the devs of games to want their game promoted on a speedrunning site where there is plenty of people to sell copies to? Speedrunning started as a market tactic and many new developers are using this tactic to sell copies(if you don’t know speedrunning has a wiki that explains this and how it was originally a marketing ploy.) Why is SS special compared to other indie developers? [/QUOTE] I don't think anyone here has any genuine problems with SS or it's developers, the problem is that ELO kept talking about how we are the #BestCommunity and how #CommunityMatters but show time and time again that they don't really give a shit. Having a new promoted games feature is just another example of ELO being more concerned with milking the site for money as opposed to actually listening to us and doing what we want.
[QUOTE=KunoDemetries] who really even goes look at the game tab on SR.C [/QUOTE] Lots of people do this when looking for a new game to run. It's by default sorted by active player count, and generally high player count = good speedgame (if not why would people be playing it? besides youtube influence that is)
[QUOTE=TRLittleToaster] The point of social media is to allow for users to find off-site contact. ROBLOX has a very scuffed messaging system and Minecraft doesn't have one at all [/QUOTE] So why can I link my megaman leaderboards and zeldaspeedruns profiles?
Also can we get a social media box for Mario Kart Players' Page profiles?
[QUOTE=Liv] It's not easy to get banned at all. [/QUOTE] Considering the fact that some users have gotten banned for having said things on discord over 3 years ago (such as @Lor) I wouldn't say it's especially difficult. Also for the guy in the pronouns thread, you can say it's a clear troll, but if we are going to start permabanning trolls then where is my ban?
[QUOTE=acE.] How can I know if I am really looking at the fastest time when in reality someone could hold a legitimate WR but be banned on this site for reasons outside of cheating? [/QUOTE] Moderators can add a runners times for them in the case that the user is banned. Banning the user simply means that they can't submit the runs on their own. But I do agree with your post overall, sort of. I actually have thought about this recently and I don't think we should ban users for cheating either, but we should put a big banner on their profile saying "this guy cheated in X game, press HERE to read more" with maybe a summary of what they did.
Also I only noticed that they have 2 twitters linked now, will other leaderboards also be getting the ability to have multiple links on their page or do I need to pay money for that? If so, how much?
[QUOTE=Mortar] What a shitshow. [/QUOTE] Holy shit, finally someone I can hate on this site that talks like a normal person and not like a fucking corporate droid (I'm looking at you @SpeedrunCom )
[QUOTE=Mortar] one that is now getting boosted by the ads, sure, but I'd think these people joining are ones that actually like the game, they dont seem like robots when I talk to them [/QUOTE] Why does this point matter at all? Ofc only people that like an advertised product will use it, but that doesn't make advertising any less irritating.
