Make Allsfair a moderator, he'll verify all the JT runs. :P The original mods don't do anything anymore, neither does BigChicken, he doesn't even speedrun...not sure why he was a mod in the first place. I'm pretty sure Rocko looks at a lot of the runs, but doesn't verify nearly as much as Boethiah and Goblin.
I have nothing but respect for the 3 mods, but I feel as though they're too nice, and have some laziness. I've seen some runs that shouldn't have even been verified in the first place, like a crimson solo with the player's height set to 8 feet, like cmon. There was a crescendo run that was verified as a trio, when it was a solo. It's the mod's job to fix these mistakes, but yet never were. I had to message Rocko about it to get him to fix it. Another example is Sweetless' 8:31 duo. She put the time under "real time" instead of "in-game time" and it placed the run at last. It was never fixed until I told her how to edit the run.
The problem is, every quest has a huge skill-gap, and I would say there is one clear top player for each quest. My jumbotron solo is unbeatable for everyone except myself, I bet no one can even get within 2 minutes of my time. With Jumbotron being the hardest quest, (no argument can be made), it really separates the good players from the bad ones. Absolutely every run that gets submitted should be verified, simply having your name on the board will get you noticed by the top players. I always watch every JT speedrun to look for potential. "Are they good enough for WR" or "can I make them better to get a WR?"
There is quite a bit of back story into how the 4 of us became moderators on the speed run site which many of you may not know and while we are moderators I don't think we even have the ability to appoint new/remove inactive moderators (D9ner/MsKitty refused to hand this over). Like most things this is completely voluntary and most of us have jobs or families which come first and foremost. There has been a great influx in runs over the last 6 months and we have worked to keep verifying them.
At our start we made the rules lax and figured we would add to them as things occurred.. I.E. the use of the recalibration tool in CBM runs. While the rules are still rather lax it is not impossible for them to be amended. I would say it is however a near impossible task to go back through and remove each run which had previously been verified but now breaks a newly implemented rule. If you notice a run was verified but the time was incorrect or a old run breaks newly implemented rules then feel free to reach out to one of us and we can handle the issue.
While it would make sense to have several of you as moderators it would also lead to a conflict of interest. The reason the 4 of us were appointed as moderators at the same time was to mitigate that conflict of interest.
If you would like to discuss this further feel free to DM me on Discord: Rocko#8625
DOUBLE SHOT IS BACK!!!!!
Hello everyone hope you are doing well. I wanted to make a quick announcement about double shot returning to bows. It is really great to see the biggest feature making its way back to rec room and hopefully reviving the speedrunning community. I do want to answer some possi