What's with the medals on this forum?

[worldofneil]

I've completed more checking and have updated my post here, but Xibri has 4 silvers because they have between 30 and 49 posts. That's rank 4.

I don't think I've explained this very well though, but the "medals" are actually two parts, they just have the same icons so it looks like one thing:



The right side is the post count and is definitely only related to the number of posts you've made. See my link above, every single person I've checked falls within the rank brackets I've listed there.

The left side is "kin", which is probably the "likes" that have been mentioned already. People can have 0, 1, 2 or even 3 kin. Each one is a separate gold medal. I haven't seen anyone with 4 yet.

I'd like to propose an experiment though to see if we can determine if that's definitely the number of likes you've received?

I've found this post here which was from 2015 and the poster hasn't been back since and I'd like to propose we all "like" it and see if they start getting gold kin medals. I don't know that poster, but picked them because the post itself seemed like something neutral that no one would probably have a problem liking and it needed to be a poster that hadn't posted in a while so as to now skew the results.