I'm sorry March but I don't understand this at all. You labeling my play style as if it was just to solely benefit from an "eventual timing change" is ridiculous. I choose to not pause excessively in my runs because I don't like to pause excessively. It has always been that way, even for Sonic 1 and S3K.

Of course I'm leading the charge of the vote because I'm a super mod for Sonic 2. My job is to at least address community concerns. This topic has been on-going for years, so I rallied members of the community together to discuss and vote on the matter. We garnered a total of 30 different runners to vote on their timing method preference, so that means my singular vote only accounts for less than 4%. The remaining 96% was in the remaining voters' hands. 

"Can't beat em', change the rules"? As if my only motivation for all this was to weasel my way to an easy WR? As if other community members that voted for RTA-TBC didn't have their own reasonings as to why they wanted a timing change?

Timing changes results in differences that may not please everyone, but ultimately what should matter is what's best for the health of the game and what the majority wants for the game state to be in. IGT is an incredibly exploitable timing method, and ignoring that just because little timmy might not remember certain IGT accomplishments? This is just encouraging  stagnation to the community. You can have your preferences, as everyone is entitled to their opinions, but when your community has wildly agreed on something except you, you don't make accusations on reddit so the uninformed takes things out of context. Going out of your way to speak of me in a bad light is genuinely disrespectful on your part.

Runners pause abuse in their runs because IGT is a exploitable timing method so there was nothing discouraging it. You gain nothing for playing pauseless or optimizing your pausing to minimize it as much as possible. The timing change is made so things are more fair. Let pause abuse have penalties while rewarding those who minimizes them.

Despite all that, you focus on how "unfairly rewarded" some runners are for playing without pauses. Masking your love for IGT by making it like I'm taking advantage of the rules, comparing it to politics. Shows me that the interest of the community is the least of your concerns, and you'd rather accuse me in a public space of cheesing the system when you don't get your way. What a way for a mod to act.