I thought this would be a good idea for "obsoleting" outdated publications.
The discussion about unpublication has been brought up before but think this could be a good compromise. If this were published, any movie could be set as "obsoleted by" the publication grue. This can be useful in some publications where a movie is indeed obsolete (due to an abundance of new tricks, or a change in TASVideos quality standards) but has no movie for which to replace it.
The currently published any% version of Ocarina of Time is a good example where the current run is heavily outdated and improvable by about an _hour_! Yet we are nowhere near seeing an improvement. In such a case it could be obsoelted by the publication grue. This way the movie stays on the site (and treated just like any other obsoleted movie) but is not displayed as a current "record".
The actual movie file for this submission is moot. I picked .fm2 since it was text and allows me to explain the purpose of it. I chose rerecord counts and movie length as such that they wouldn't mess with site statistics in any meaningful way. If published it would be in its own unique "Grue" category so it would not interfere with movie lists.
I could have brought this up in a discussion thread but I thought a submission would be more appropriate and a better attention getter. Voting yes on publication of this is voting for this implementation of "unpublication". Any movies it would obsolete, however, should have their own poll or discussion beforehand.
Commence discussion.
On a side note, if published, I think we could have a lot of fun with the video file & screenshot ^_^
adelikat: Rejecting this submission due to not being popular by the audience.
adelikat: Changing system ID so that I can "grue" the Grue ID
The question was whether runs which have been bested by a regular speedrun should be removed.
Dont know, if a speedrun beats a tas I somehow doubt its due to better play rather than using new tricks. It wouldnt be a "shame" for tasvideos to keep such movies. However you would be correct to say that if submitted under "fastest time" the tases would have been obsoleted (and an obsoleted movie isn't removed, its obsoleted).
As long as the new record is clearly pointed then obsoleting the tas wouldn't be bad I guess. That would probably require some minor changes in code, a viewer seeing the run obsoleted by this submission that isn't specific about the reasons of obsoletion and then not knowing where the "current record" movie is wouldn't probably be the best solution. If the changes are too difficult for some reason the good compromise for this specific case would be an "Obsoleted by unassisted speedrun, please check forum thread." submission.
Maybe the description of these runs just have to be edited to contain stuff like "This run can be improved by approximately 34 minutes applying tricks that were only discoverd after its publication." Then maybe hint at the forum.
