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Adjudicating incorrect scores
Just making this a place to officially have a conversation about this. It's been happening for years and I figured it's about time we localize the discussion. Here is the situation. XXX submits a score. The score they actually achieved and the score they entered for a submission are not the same. I have never seen a score that didn't match the score be accepted if it was more than they earned. Example - I achieved 100 pts, but entered 110. These situations have always been rejected as they should. I didn't achieve the score. However, there have been scores accepted and/or rejected where the reverse of my example happens. As in, I achieved 100, but entered 99. Let the debate begin.
I personally feel if the score you achieved is not the scored entered, then it should be rejected. They didn't achieve the slower/lower score, why then should they be accepted as such? Should it matter if someone enters a lower score than achieved? My loose attitude towards most things says it shouldn't. But we are all about accuracy of the leaderboards. If a score is entered that doesn't match the score achieved, then it's not accurate. If one of these scores is accepted by a group of us because we think it's OK that its slower/lower, but another group thinks it shouldn't have been allowed and they dispute the score, it's just a mess.
I can also make the argument what if I enter a score that is technically not achievable in a game, but it is still lower than the score I actually achieved? Example - a games single digit is always 0 but I accidentally enter a 9 as in 100 points is my achieved score but I enter 99 a score lower but not possible to achieved. To me, based on many peoples own arguments, they would allow that score to be accepted even though it's not possible to be achieved in the game. Or they would realized it's not possible to be earned and reject it based on that, but then that contradicts their stance on it's OK to accept a score that is lower than what they achieved. See what I mean?
We are already having scores with great video evidence being rejected simply because they don't show a console/boot up or both. This to me is the next step of that same argument
So I'm voting that if a submission entered doesn't match the score achieved, they should be rejected across the board in all cases. Since it's so easy to resubmit, it's just the logical thing IMO.

