Kaall wrote...
Original Stikman wrote...
The "real world" and competitive gameplay are two different matters. A better analogy would be investigative reporters exposing corruption vs. someone investigating accounts and/or videos to expose cheating/modding. Without investigative reporters, many of the injustices that occur would not have been known. In fact, due to investigative reporting, we have the USDA that standardizes meat so that we all don't get sick from horrible strands of bacteria due to unregulated meat. Does the recent "horse meat in burgers" scandal ring a bell?
Leaving it up to officials isn't always a good option either. In 1989, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal during the olympics and it was given to Carl Lewis, an american sprinter. Yet Carl lewis was also caught with banned substances and wasn't disqualified. Just one huge example, of officials not always doing what their job is intended to do
Investigation reporter actually investigate and collect proof before acusing someone.
And when they accuse someone they don't create a hundred different articles, only one first page in a journal is enough.
erm.... perhaps the "accusation" thing is mudding things up a bit. An investigative reporter will have a "hunch" about wrong doings long before they can verify the proof. The internal accusation always happens long before the proof arrives, whether that is with scientific evidence/studies, or gaming.
what we have seen here is quite different, we have seen Hackusation before proof, and we have seen Ruthlessness before self moderation.
your point would be valid if in here people would expose cheater without creating collateral damage, exept that by accusing before having proof and by being ruthless, it has also done worse to this community for what result only 1 ban.
maybe. I get that you are more concerned about what impact this sort of "hackusation" attitude will have on the community. Yet there is no currently acceptable alternative solution.
The underlying theme in all of this is understanding what constitutes a "legitimate" speedrun solo? That is the fundamental question.
What air quotes did/does challenges what people consider legitamate, and disabuses people from accepting things at face value, which they should. At this point in time, there doesn't seem to be another acceptable way to address that question. Edit: Air Quotes posted what some standards could be used to make a "legitimate" speedrun video that
that is an awesome result you got there, what is the next step ?, making this subforum the same as the romance subforum for a couple of new bans ?
^this is just another slippery slope argument
Modifié par Original Stikman, 08 avril 2013 - 08:43 .