Gold medal by character names??

But it looks like gold medal isn't just for Likes, either, because there are a few posters above with only gold medals.

Okay here it is. The "medals" are actually made up of two parts:

Any number (0~X) of single gold medals, they're called "kin"s: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/images/misc/kin.gif
Plus a number of gold+silver that makes up 1~10, they're calls "postrank"s:
1 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank1.gif
2 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank2.gif
3 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank3.gif
4 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank4.gif
5 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank5.gif
6 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank6.gif
7 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank7.gif
8 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank8.gif
9 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank9.gif
10 http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...postrank10.gif

Relationship between number of posts and medals:
24 = postrank 3
96 = postrank 5
119 = postrank 6
120 = postrank 6
266 = postrank 7
291 = postrank 7
381 = kin + postrank 7
472 = kin + kin + postrank 7
595 = kin + postrank 8
771 = kin + kin + postrank 8
930 = kin + postrank 8
1124 = kin + postrank 9
1289 = kin + kin + postrank 9
1373 = kin + kin + postrank 9
2605 = kin + postrank 10
4808 = kin + kin + kin + kin + postrank 10

It's clear that the "kin" part is not dependent on the post count, but the postrank part is clearly just used to represent the post count.

Most likely As proven in the thread earlier, the "kin" part is based on the number of likes you getgave. It's just that for postrank 5~10 you also get gold medals, so it can seem confusing.

Another evidence is that after you post a reply (or edit a post), the website dynamically adds your reply to the page, at this time, it has no access to your "kin" data so you will only see your own postcount as medals. You also can't see your portrait. When you refresh the page, it gets access to the kin data and displays those kin medals (as well as your portrait).

goodness gracious we MMO gamers will just dissect anything won't we

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Originally Posted by nyttyn

goodness gracious we MMO gamers will just dissect anything won't we

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Dissection and deconstruction are key to understanding.

errr... why need to discuss this again btw? Does this affect significantly? ^^;

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

errr... why need to discuss this again btw? Does this affect significantly? ^^;

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Uh. It's only the very most important part of the entire FFXIV experience.

Obviously.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

errr... why need to discuss this again btw? Does this affect significantly? ^^;

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forum rank is srs business

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Uh. It's only the very most important part of the entire FFXIV experience.

Obviously.

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"very"? really? lol

like i said bobby, srs business

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

like i said bobby, srs business

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wkwkwkwkwk

OH god... The last thing we need is rng in out forums. Such a blasted thing. Yes, please, get someone to sort this out, dammit! Official response requested, yo!

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

"very"? really? lol

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Most verily very.

No idea how long I've had the gold medal, but I'm certainly not at 100 posts.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Most verily very.

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One of the gold medals involves Texas, I'm certain of it. That said, I'm happy at 4.