Audio should not be optional and just be mandatory. Why I think this is splicing runs would be harder because of the music cutting to another point.

There is the point of there are people who can't record audio, but I'm quite sure audio in screen recordings is so wide spread that the option to not have audio is probably going to be used for malicious reasons and a very slim minority of people that can not actually record audio.

I'd just want to hear the reason of why that rule is there in the first place and if it is here to stay, thanks in advance.

splicing runs for a game like this is legitimately almost impossible and even if they had audio, they could turn game music down and download the game's music, then put it in to make it seem real.

Hats off to the person that gets a spliced run past the mods in a game like this.

bruh music is distracting, i almost always have it off, or the sound level is at 0

I make sobs and btts all the time, pretty much, spliced runs are near impossible because of all the rotating platforms. Also, every mod here except kurdkobain because I don't know them yet are very good at their jobs.

Beanos has a point. It's actually really, really difficult to splice runs in a game like this. I don't think we have encountered any spliced runs, but if people submit slideshows (<5 fps) and bad enough quality we just reject it.

If someone gets dropped frames, we can look at a few things, but I'm not going to say them here as there might actually be a cheater lurking here somewhere getting ideas from our criteria.

Like Beanos said, we are good at our jobs and we'd detect a splice when there is one.

A nice rule would be if we forced everyone to use performance stats, which gives information about the current performance of the game, such as the receiving network and ping. It's a good way to tell if a video is not cut out as well. It's really easy to turn on and won't bother people so easily. If multiple people approve of this rule, we can start enforcing it, but again, that's only if the majority agrees.