SMS Freedom of Information

A place to disclose and permanently host information for the public benefit, as I see fit.

This page has an impartiality policy; if there’s any document missing from coverage of a topic, please let me know.

Sensitive Evidence

Some archives are available from the Open SMS Discord to anyone who is known and trusted (meaning any invested community member); inquire with whoever is around there for access.

Documentation

IL Accurate Leaderboard (Table, App)
A tool to deanonymise players and collect missing runs to promote leaderboard accuracy.

RTA Leaderboard Tracker
A tool to deanonymise players and log deleted runs to promote leaderboard accuracy.

SMS Moderator Discussion Archives

#speedrunning
Archive of the SMS channel from Guy2308’s Discord that hosted the IL meta from late 2019 to mid 2021.

Deleted A8 Runs
A record of every run by Guy2308 removed from the Speedrun.com leaderboards.

Abuse/Conflict

MLarvitar/Jpep (Allegation 1, Allegation 2)

Me

Toburr/Rudhira/PneumaticKomodo/GoldenDevil

Archives of the May 2022 conflict and Jun–Jul 2022 mediation Discord channels regarding the bingo community bullying case. The third link includes a review of the information warfare Toburr/Rudhira/Lego6245/JeffCompass conducted over said ban notice.

Awesomocity0/Dutchj (Allegation)

Lumardy (Allegation, Response, Revenge)

Urbani (Allegation)

Guy2308/Tareq/Nebuladiv/ddos/UrinalMike/ EquivocalGenius/Oatflaker/knirgesh/rays04 (Allegation, Libel Review, Case Chats)
⚠ The Allegation doc has unresolved libel, so should not be assumed to be true.
A.k.a. Tareq Discord, Zoomer case, Doctober. This was the one that caused a gigantic moral panic.

BTRL Essay
A post-mortem on the issue of BTRL commentary in SMS, Jun 2021.

Publication History

2025/02/09: warspyking dms (already published)

2025/01/26: sms mod chats (2018/05–2022/05), sms il mod chat (2022/05–2024/01), jpep/1upsforlife dms (2021/07–)

2024/10/22: sensitive evidence list, tareq discord case discussions, nebuladiv libel review, lumardy case revenge, toburr ban notice/post-mortem

2023/12/21: awesomocity0/dutchj case, mlarvitar/jpep case, il accurate leaderboard

2023/01/12: rta leaderboard tracker

2022/11/01: btrl essay

2022/10/14: #speedrunning, deleted a8 runs, my case, bingo case #screenshot-thread, bingo case #community-reconciliation, lumardy case, urbani case, tareq discord case