If I understand correctly its because the mods believe the character of the runners reflect poorly on the community?
I think from an outside perspective its the censorship that reflects poorly on the community. To me it comes off as childish, like disconnecting from an online match right before losing.
But if you think I'm wrong, explain why. Let's talk about it
Laseki, you know what's extremely Ironic? He was saying that he didn't care about his ban at all the other day 🤣
As long as the run contains no spice and the VOD consists only of good boys and girls playing their games, I don't believe censorship is in order.
The fact that the other topic got deleted is a clear sign of not allowing any member of this wide website community to speak of their piece of mind on the matter which shows a really negative & censoring behavior from this game community.
hope that was worth to delete since there wasn't no offensive or nor hate speech towards nobody, and still got deleted!
i really hope once again the SR staff members do take actions on the matter since the current moderators not generalizing since i don't know which ones are the good ones and which ones are the bad ones are just clearly against this silly debate of putting the current world record holder as an anonymous runner which is the most non-sense i have ever seen on a game community. best of lucks to this game and his runners and im crossing my fingers to see a good end for this disaster, since censoring runners from a leaderboard and editing his WR Video without permission is a huge disrespect from my point of view.
People can think what they want, but when a member of the community specifically goes out of thier way to make other members of the community uncomfortable because they are a woman or aren't white, then they get the boot. Opinions are NOT being censored, his run was removed because he is a bigot and has made it very clear that he values certain groups of people less then others for petty reasons. The fact that he got kicked from the Freedom Planet community does not help his case at all.
I disagree with Laseki's assertion that BurgAlert is a bigot, at least based on the screenshots that the Mega Man X community have provided so far. I also do not believe that BurgAlert specifically went out of his way to make anyone uncomfortable.
As I mentioned in the previous thread before it got locked up, I think a deep conversation with the community should happen.
The biggest complaint I could do at this point is the lack of communication regarding the train of thought of the decision. Beside forum chat that gives reason here and there, where is the official statement? I mean, it is a big deal to ban the WR holder and also Calebhart42/iceless which we speak less about.
Also, is it the role of a speedrunning community? Are we making background check to everybody that run Mega man?
I got my opinion on the subject and I respect the fact that other has opinion that differs from mine. I just have no idea at this point if these decisions is supported by the community or only by the mods group because I never saw any call to ask the opinion of this so-called community.
This so called conversation its a coinflip where the 50% can end up in good terms on both parties and the other 50% on an endless discussion about why the current actions should and are GOING to remain firm, just because they think its the political and right thing to do.
Again i trust that the speedrun staff goes in favor of burgalert request of taking the lead of this game so this censoring episode comes to an end since its clear that the objective of this website its to LOG times of runners from X game and register them on a Leaderboard with the basic protocols of verification that a run needs to go thought to be verified & properly given a rank on such leaderboard.
Its sad to see that people are setting distinctions for X or Y individual just because they said this or did this outside the gaming enviroment. and that should be enough to punish them on that specific game that is just non-sense and as long as they not tarnishing directly in any way the game then it shouldnt be a business of anybody to be concerned about.
@SeValentine I think you're right on that. For the sake of the thread making sense I'll leave my comment above, but a conversation as I was asking is probably not the best solution. Meanwhile I've seen Burg's demand, so I guess that it will be up to them. I'll walk out of the debate and look at what happens for now...
