Hey Marcus, welcome to the community!
In terms of general tips, I suggest you at least skim through these forum posts:
https://www.speedrun.com/streaming_recording_equipment/thread/qlnmy
https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/pgxyw

You can see useful resources here:
https://www.speedrun.com/resources

If you have any questions, the community is generally glad to help. If its a game-specific question you can ask
it in their forum, or their discord or they have 1.

(And though this is more subjective, some etiquette suggestions):

-Don't complain about your run taking a while to verify. The mods have lives.
-Don't ask to be a moderator for a speedrun leaderboard. It's generally annoying if they don't need one.
-Don't cheat, obviously.
-Don't necro threads.

New to the community? Introduce yourself here. Tell us about your goals in speedrunning.

Introductions

Hello there.

Marcus308