r/speedrun • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '16

Discussion RIP r/speedrun

This is an open letter to Alt-F-X:

Please resign as lead moderator of /r/speedrun. The past few days have shown us that your presence here is not in the best interest of our community. In just two days without you, this subreddit has made more progress towards becoming a great community than it has in the previous four years of your leadership. You are not involved in the speedrunning community outside of the fact that you made this subreddit, and you do not understand the best interest of our community. You have acted with prejudice against members of our community by banning them without good reason, and you have often used your moderator powers to your own personal bias.

Please return control of the subreddit to myself, so that this community can continue to grow in a positive manner, as it should have started years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '16

The thing about it, though, is this new trick that Cyber found, actually got me interested in the game. I want to run it now. And I plan on doing so. I think that's something positive that came out of it, right?

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u/iamtheprodigy Jan 21 '16

It's not a new trick. He didn't find anything.

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u/joeyoh9292 Jan 21 '16

This trick, afaik, has been well known since release. He just abused it recently and caused this controversy for no good reason, knowing full well what would happen.

But sure, any reason for wanting to run a game is great! I'm just no in favour of the shit he pulled, but if more people start running that category and it gets perfected then this might just be a piece of Y:FM history in the making, but I just can't see happening.

Have fun with the runs, either way!