Gold medal by character names??

I was convinced it was based on post count.

But after looking at other peoples post count/gold medals I'm not sure.

it's just posts

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Originally Posted by charlemagne

it's just posts

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Yeah but you have more posts than me but I have more medals.

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Originally Posted by Elim

Yeah but you have more posts than me but I have more medals.

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Looks like you have a "tier" greater number of Likes than charlemagne does.

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Originally Posted by Errors

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

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That doesn't explain Doki with 2 G and 3S with 576 posts, or Wobble 2G 3S with 674

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Originally Posted by Zantitrach

That doesn't explain Doki with 2 G and 3S with 576 posts, or Wobble 2G 3S with 674

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Did you read all of my post?

There is a kin.gif prepended to the rank images, which we don't know yet what there it.

Right click on Doki and Wobble's right most medal, open that image into it's own browser window. The rank gifs are based on those post counts, which match what I posted. The kin.gif are prepended but don't follow the post counts. Also you can see they are separate single gold medal images in the source code.

Spreadsheet I put together for figuring the post count range based on posts I see on the forums: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...=0&single=true

Yeah its not only post counts. Many people have huge differences in their counts with the same, more or less medals.

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Originally Posted by Zantitrach

That doesn't explain Doki with 2 G and 3S with 576 posts, or Wobble 2G 3S with 674

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Both have 1 gold medal and 3 silver medals from post cost and an additional 1 gold medal from "Kin" Ranks which are likely tied to Likes.

I'm going to have to go with Gramul and say it has to do with how attractive you are. While less attractive than Gramul I'm still marginally more attractive compared to the rest of yo---.. I mean it has to do something with likes, posts, and likes given :P

I've also wondered if it has to do with duration on the forums, it could just be correlation (longer time on the forums = more posts and likes) but it happens to be consistent for the "kinship" ranked people I've seen. I imagine there are milestones needed before you can obtain certain ranks, even if you have the post and like count met. Whatever system they set up it is more complex than just post counts, I've seen too many anomalies for that to be true.

Anyway, you're all beautiful snurbles to me


Edit: I'd believe the system comes in two parts as some people are suggesting here (each relying on different metrics). Just that the system in total doesn't rely on post counts alone.

Part post count, part likes I bet