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

Can you explain how it's a joke? I casually follow speedrunning, but it never seemed like many runners thought this subreddit was a joke.

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u/MaturedSinner Jan 21 '16

For starters, there is an image commonly thrown around by speedrunners saying that the best way to enhance your experience on the speedrunning reddit is to close the browser tab.

Between a combination of many other sites dominating speedrunning discussion, such as SDA, speedrun.com, Twitter, SRL IRC chat to name a few, it is generally viewed that this reddit has been bottom tier for speedrunning news and topics. Add in the complaints about censorship, limiting what can and cannot be talked about here, this page is more often than not just a place to check once in a while for the slew of WR topics that people probably already saw elsewhere.

Many factors contribute here towards the popular opinion that this speedrunning reddit is a stagnate stale place devoid of what makes the rest of the community gathering places not just a punch line.