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Pretty much the only reason is its much easier for me to fill out all the details after I PB. I already have livesplit up and can pull the splits data from splits.io, so it makes little sense (at least to me) to copy it at all into a notepad file to then dig up again a few days later.
It seems I'm in the minority, but there is really no reason it should cause issues when only 5 people can see it. Board mods handle their own boards on behalf of the community, the site shouldn't really get involved unless someone approaches them.
Woo freedom.
Just to clarify, it wasn't a spam run. I just used a placeholder video so I could fill out the details while they were still up on my screen. I've done it that way for years.
Honestly, I'm still confused how it happened at all. I was told they thought it was an abuse of power from a supermod, but all I did was submit two runs to the board.
As far as I understand it, if my run had been accepted instead of rejected, site mods would not have been notified at all, so it seems the bot isn't really doing its job in flagging things in this scenario.
Edit: To be extra clear, this was a manual ban.
You can use the filter option to separate console runs from PC runs.
It seems better than it was earlier, but it still feels like a pointless change and time could've been better spent elsewhere unless there's some back-end benefit behind all of this.
Anyway, for #4 is it not viable to just have two themes so users can set both the day & night themes for the board themselves?
