Anyone who has been appointed to moderator status, and therefore given the ability to verify runs, has already proven that they are trustworthy enough to verify runs to begin with. What I take from that thread is that, although there may be suspicion by nature, the primary reason it's recommended to wait for another moderator to verify a run is to correct any accidental mistakes on the submission's information - not within the run itself.
Now, if a moderator is self-verifying runs that have been tampered with, that's another issue - but will eventually be found out and dealt with.
Aaand the guy deletes his messages when he realises this thread was pointless. xD
I'm not sure, his first post was pretty much a longer version of the topic name, I didn't see his response to mine because he deleted it before I could read it.
As of today, 17/03/25, ghost door is officially banned in all runs, due to it not being possible without pre run setup (if a setup is found from game launch the rules will be updated accordingly). All previous full runs utilizing it will be grandfathered in, and all previous ILs utilizing it will be