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[quote​=PresJPolk]If the moderators of a game you care about don't know what they're doing, contact them? I don't see the problem here.[/quote​]

You're missing the point. This is not a per-game issue. It's not about "a game {I} care about", but any game on the site, be it a popular one with a big community or one of the dozens of cryptic ones with just one submission and one moderator (=the submitter) and no proof checking.
And this is exactly why I'd like to see this as a fundamental site function instead of having to tackle each single false submission after the fact.
The submission form is the checkpoint that every single submission has to pass through - so it's naturally the best place to implement the proposed feature. And it also the place where the submitter is forced to read information like "VBA is banned" because we simply can not expect that everyone regularly reads the forum posts, frequents speedrunning Twitch chats or is even part of the English-speaking (speedrunning) community at all. It is that one interface that we have. And it matters because we want this site to be a representative, complete and fair assembly of up-to-date leaderboards. Right?
The whole platform feature might need a revision  in general. Admins having to unlock certain platforms on a per-game-basis and platforms that are irrelevant to speedrunning being the sole default option(e.g. "GBC" for all Gameboy games) are remnants from the beginning of the site when that data field was probably not even intended to be used for verification, but just for quickly stating the original platform in the game info on the top left of the game's page. A revision is long overdue, imo.

[quote​=kobepilgrim]Could there be a way to propose removing VBA from those types of lists, at least on the major ROM sites?[/quote​]

No. This is solely related to speedrunning. Most people couldn't care less for a game running at 59.7275 fps instead of 60.3 fps. An emulator that gets rid of the lag that the original platform suffered from can be seen as an improvement of the playing experience for the casual retrogame fan. VBA is and remains a valid option for those. It's only when it comes to competitiveness and comparability that accuracy and fixed standards matter. And that is where this site and its own functions come into play.

[quote​=PresJPolk]Maybe just adding an emulator dropdown for emulator runs site-wide, and allowing game by game auto-rejects, would be good?[/quote]

Exactly. Maybe I missed making myself clear in the opening post, but that is exactly what I was trying to suggest:

As soon as someone ticks the emulator checkbox there should be a mandatory textfield or dropdown menu from which the submitter has to specify the emulator he used for the run.


(P.S.: I thought sr.com supported BBCode?!)