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If you've used the forum recently you'll know it's a bit problematic and for various reasons, and unfortunately it has been like this for a while now. A few days ago, Graf_Pigouni posted his thoughts on this topic and it's gotten people talking, and rightfully so. Rather than replying in that topic only to have the message buried on a random page and missed by people, I'll be sharing my thoughts and what will be happening soon to mitigate this here.

The Problem(s):

Competitive talking. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with increasing their message count because it's really stupid. Kids get a shot of dopamine seeing that number go up and then go off topic by celebrating a message milestone. Quite frankly, nobody cares and it gets annoying really quick. I've lost track of how many times people have been told to not have conversations on the report topic, only for more conversations to happen a few days later (there's a reason we only want reports there, it makes moderating the site easier since we don't need to filter slop, help us help you!).

It's clear that the message counter has fueled posts containing unimportant slop and has led to the creation of random topics that should just go on Space for Anything. I don't think anyone would be surprised with the fact that people are spending more time on the forums than the actual game (holy shit did you guys realise the MK in MKPC stands for Mario Kart meaning there's a game attached to the site?!).

Oh and for those who think I broke the rules by saying the 'shit' word in the sentence above, you haven't read the rules, which also happens to be another problem contributing to the forum slop. Easy solution would be to just read it, idk what you want me to tell you.

It doesn't help that most of the contributors to the problem are young, too young for social media so they come here instead. Now even though I personally think you shouldn't be allowed on social media at such a young age, I can't realistically enforce those bans, and I'm sure people would fake their age anyway.

Take some advice from a 20yo unc like me, you only get one childhood, so don't waste it here on the forums and go enjoy it.

What the community should do:

If people do break the rules on the forum, either use the report topic or the red report button in the top right corner of each message. Also, don't give any rule-breaking messages any attention because it will only make things worse. Use reactions where applicable instead of making a new post too.

PLAY THE GAME. There is so much love and effort put into the game, especially people who create custom tracks for others to enjoy. Even the lower-end courses are still made by people attempting to contribute to the site. Go and explore the courses out there and support creators who put a lot of time and care into their creations. I reckon some forum grinders don't know who RHcks is, and that's a red flag tbh.

Going outside is also a solid option.

What I will be doing as an admin:

I'll be pushing for some updated rules that should be easier for the community to read. Even though the current rules are admittedly a bit tricky to follow it IS still your responsibility to read and follow them. The rules exist for a reason and serve to keep the community safe and the mods will enforce them where necessary, but know the mods here are pretty chill and lenient with people and we don't make unfair decisions. Hopefully this limits the amount of people who get confused or those who don't understand that mild swearing is actually allowed.

I will also be purging the report topic next week, meaning every post there will be deleted. Some of you will notice that your message counts will drop (boo hoo), as it should since it's not a place to chat or get that number going up. I'm also expecting the new report topic to not have any irrelevant messages.

TLDR:
You should probably actually read this but quick recap:
- Make sure you read and follow the rules
- Competitive talking is bad
- Message count is useless and NOT an achievement
- Don't respond to rule-breaking messages and use the report options
- Play the game including custom tracks

Have a good day.

This is getting a bit out of hand now, so I'm going to address a few things.


I've had to delete a few non-report messages, this isn't a place to chat nor farm messages. Only reports and appeals are meant to be here (and in light of recent events, people keeping this on topic). Might need to purge this topic for the 3rd time atm.

@USAfromPWA-wtih-luis stop cross reacting with messages that are correct, you seem to have zero common sense in general and haven't learnt from your warn.


No, the purpose of the official report topic is solely for reports. When people clog this topic up with garbage it makes moderation MUCH more annoying. LakituMaker is correct (and it's got nothing to do with 'taking a joke' ), but idm having fun on pretty much every other topic that exists here.

Updated the 2nd post, RD is not cheating.

Also lately I've had to delete a lot of non-report messages so 3rd reminder to stay on topic, though we had a good run.

Friendly reminder to keep this topic only for reports and to actually read the 2nd post on this topic about jumping in, I've had to delete quite a few messages.

Friendly reminder for people to use this topic only for reports and not for anything else. I've deleted a few unimportant messages but I've decided I'll leave some that I think are reasonable even if not actually a report. Although I probably won't do this anymore.

I'll also update the topic rules on the 2nd post for an issue I didn't think of before, but you are allowed to reply here if you want to contest a report you think is false or dumb (eg you've been reported for light swears). Although it should be obvious to contest reports only regarding yourself, no need to jump in for others. (We do have common sense anyway so it's likely you don't need to report, the x emoji should be enough).

Updated the 2nd post on the topic, please have a read. It just makes it a little easier to scroll through reports.

Please use this topic ONLY for reports, and where possible merge reports into 1 post. Any message that isn't a report will be deleted, this is not a place to increase your message count.

The only exception to this is if you think a report is unfair and you want to contest it, but you can only do this for yourself. Don't jump in for others.

Also, if there is already a report, there is no need to jump in on it and add another comment like "they also have a bad description" or "they also did this to me". We investigate these sorts of things already.

Btw for newer players, being much faster online is most likely Reverse Drifting or RD and not cheating so please don't report those. It is NOT cheating.

Most likely because the challenge is actually easy.

For example, I've seen some challenges recently that have a time limit of 1:30 requested as "difficult", but can be beaten in half of that without really trying. So of course we need to downgrade the difficulty.

To be fair the current rules are pretty outdated and at times unclear so maybe I should work on a new set (that totally wasn't proposed several years ago).

Most likely the "R" wasn't seen by the validator, if you rebeat it I can fix it (challenges might be downgraded to medium difficulty).

Btw rotating the image doesn't count towards anything since the image is still technically the same, and the goombas and custom music are a bit debatable. It's mainly the R variant part that would let this slide.

You might not be aware of how the system works, but basically all pending challenges are put on a hidden log only validators have access to, so we can see it anyway.

The topic isn't for letting people know what challenges you have, it's about what challenges are allowed and if people have any questions around them.

Nodac is, he's practically done like 90%+ of the challenges lately, so I think he deserves a break lol.

Most likely a break or just busy with other stuff, tbh we've only got 1 really active validator atm.

We've also gotten a lot of challenges recently too, more than what we normally get. Yesterday when I got on there were 82 pending, I brought that down to 40 but it's back up to 57. I plan on doing a bit more soon but obviously I need to prioritise uni work.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for contributing to this topic. Unfortunately, you did not complete the challenge of "following forum rules" so I cannot award you your 20 challenge points.

I added a 10th point regarding challenges on stolen courses, French translation should be soon

Sorry that was me, I should probably update the first post so that it's clearer. I started rejecting challenges on stolen tracks since it became an issue after the topic.

Even though your case doesn't seem like you stole it on purpose I'm still not sure if I should allow it just to keep things consistent. I'm also not entirely sure what you meant by being 'forced' to steal it. DM me if you'd like to ask anything else related to this tho.

I just checked what happened and in your case you just got unlucky because the items didn't load in for some reason. Nothing you didn't wrong and it seems fixed now 👍

The topic was intended to clarify challenge rules and guidelines, not to show people any challenges you have. We can already see them when they are pending.

In your case, I have skill issue and can't beat some of them lol