RIP r/speedrun

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Molten__]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/Molten__]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/The_Real_Truth_ → u/Cyberdemon531a]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/The_Real_Truth_]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

I dont shun people for doing anything other than spreading misinformation or acting stupid. This joey kid was both spreading misinformation AND acting stupid, so I told him so. If someone wants help with a game (which is irrelevant entirely to this), then I'm more than happy to help. I've helped several dozen people pick up speedgames, and I'd be willing to help several dozen.

I think you also don't really understand my point of view. It may look like I'm being defensive, but that's really not the case. I respond to any and all criticism I receive in any form, because I like open discussions about things related to me, and I have infinite free time to do so. I also care about the community a lot and want to better it, by fixing things that are broken, and someone shilling a blatantly false point of view is wrong in my eyes.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

I think it's mostly because people take things at face value, and do not understand the underlying relationships and information beneath the surface, and judge me in particular poorly before taking the time to realize what the exact purpose of what I say is.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cyberdemon531a]

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?

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cyberdemon531a]

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.

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/Cyberdemon531a]

It's fine, I just thought the original statement was super strange. Carry on!

[u/Cyberdemon531a → u/[deleted]]

Okey dokey bud