Gold medal by character names??

[Nici]

I think the Gold must have something to do with likes. Because Gramul later in this thread has all Gold medals, if my memory serves the man tends to get quite a few likes on his posts.

He gets so many likes cause as he said...he's good looking, not cause of anything he says in his posts. :X im kidding! =D

[Obysuca]

I'm not sure.

but I think you need to be liked by people.

I have 2,200+ posts but only 3 gold medals, probably because people usually hate what I said.

It might be by how many likes, seeing as we have the same amount of gold, but I also have silver too. But your post count is much greater than mine lol

[Errors]

It's post count only. What forum software call ranks usually.

Liking posts and getting your own posts liked has nothing to do with it, that's a total different module/plugin for the forums.

Source: I've setup/managed many forums.

FFXIV forums is run off of vBulletin software. Their website: http://www.vbulletin.com/

Edit/update: Looks like they are using the ranking plugin however added something additional to it. See my post below.

[Wobble]

hmm

999 post = 2 gold 3 silver

1000 post = 2 gold 4 silver

Can't be this. Look at mine.

[Nici]

Only way to really find out is just to ask....So!...Forum Dev/Mod out there of these wonderful FF forums would like to let us know about the gold little medals?

[Sadana]

I've noticed mine change sometimes between more gold medals or more silver medals (and back). I just figured it was something wonky with the site's post count... like now, I just went from 1 gold 3 silver to 4 gold 3 silver.

I'm guessing too that it could be the gold counts 50 once you pass that number, then swaps to counting 100 posts after you pass that number, to 500, 1k, etc. But it's not consistent... >.>

[Errors]

Here are all the images for the post ranks:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank1.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank2.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank3.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank4.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank5.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank6.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank7.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank8.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank9.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...postrank10.gif

And this is a special one where they combine post rank images to add on to the chain:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/images/misc/kin.gif

Edit: compiled a quick spreadsheet by checking random threads, and recording all the posts counts and their ranking images. This is what I've come up with so far (it's not definite but gets the basic range):

postrank1gi.f = 1-9 posts
postrank2.gif = 10-19 posts
postrank3.gif = 20-29 posts
postrank4.gif = 30-49 posts
postrank5.gif = 50-99 posts
postrank6.gif = 100-249 posts
postrank7.gif = 250-499 posts
postrank8.gif = 500-999 posts
postrank9.gif = 1000-1999 posts
postrank10.gif = 2000+ posts

As for the kin.gifs not sure, the max it appears you can have of them is 4.
So 4 kin + postrank10 (2 gold medals) = 6 gold medals

[Doki]

When do we get medals with glows?

[Lumia]

I am indeed. Do I know you? o.O

You do ^^ Does Lai Lai ring a bell?

[Gramul]

When do we get medals with glows?

Please no.
That would be terrifyingly ironic.