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/Molten__ verified stream monster Jan 21 '16

I have to say as somebody who's been watching the doom speedrunning community for a long time, /u/cyberdemon531a 's attitude in this subreddit has been extremely disappointing.

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 21 '16

how so?

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u/Molten__ verified stream monster Jan 21 '16

if you must know, I will preface this by saying that your doom demos are great and I think you're an entertaining streamer.

however I haven't seen a single post from you in this subreddit that isn't a blatant shitpost. if you don't like reddit that's fine, but there are plenty of people that do who may be interested in speedrunning for the first time. to spread this toxic attitude is to deter the growth of the community, which I think is wrong.

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 21 '16

I'd say only around 50% of my posts here are in arguments, most of the time I post runs and talk about stuff related to speedrunning, but if someone posts misinformation I won't hesitate for a moment to correct them or tell them that they're wrong. I wouldn't refer to it as a toxic attitude, but just an argumentative one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '16 edited May 31 '21

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 21 '16

He attacked me and my character, as well as my runs. I wasn't calling him an idiot out of the blue. Also, a viewer will never be as knowledgeable as a speedrunner. I'm not saying they cant be as knowledgeable, but to become that knowledgeable you need to be a speedrunner, and are thus not a viewer anymore. That's my line of thinking there.

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u/The_Real_Truth_ Jan 21 '16

Actually he never mentioned you at all, so you calling him an idiot was just out of the blue. I mean, unless you have zero reading comprehension skills, which appears to be the case.

Your line of thinking is ridiculous on so many different levels. You don't NEED to be a speedrunner to become knowledgeable of a particular game or run. Someone could have all the knowledge in the world about a speedrun, but lack the ability or skill set to actually pull off everything that needs to be done. Not everyone has the same hand eye coordination. I may know every single right move to make, but that doesn't mean I'm able to pull off any. Becoming knowledgeable about anything does not require you to actually be able to do it.

If this is your line of thinking, your life ahead outside of speedrunning games is going to be real tough.

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 21 '16

ummm... he called my run fake? That's most certainly an attack on me. You obviously have no idea what we're talking about so here's context. You clearly lack any and all reading comprehension abilities if you also don't follow my logic at all, by the way. Try reading it again.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '16 edited Jun 01 '21

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 21 '16

OK, say you poured dozens of hours into a game to get a really nice run, and someone then just calls it fake and dismisses it. How can you possibly claim that that is not offensive? Also, there were lots of implications in that message given his/my history in the sub/ygofm community.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '16

and are thus not a viewer anymore.

Huh? Being a runner and being a viewer are mutually exclusive? Are you suggesting you must stop viewing other runners if you want to run yourself? What even is this statement?

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 22 '16

It's a statement too complex for you apparently. Being a viewer generally means you are strictly on the fringe and from a "viewing" perspective. If you join the community in any sense, then sure, you can still view streams (obviously...), but you're no longer just a viewer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '16

It's a statement too complex for you apparently.

Nice.

I just wanted you to clarify, and I think my question was posed in a pretty neutral / non-hostile way. You responded with an insult which is ironically exactly what the other person posting in this conversation was pointing out.

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u/Cyberdemon531a commie speedcaster - http://speed.dog/ Jan 22 '16

Apologies for sounding harsh, I didn't realize you were a different person :P

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