Gold medal by character names??

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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

[Zantitrach]

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

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

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

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

[Ultimatecalibur]

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

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.