Spiral Knights - How big is your presence on the forums? Find out with Google

How big is your presence on the forums? Find out with Google

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Sat, 07/26/2014 - 17:57

Krakob

Something funny I figured you could do: by googling "site:forums.spiralknights.com name" where name is the name of a player, you can find out roughly how many pages their names have been on by reading the estimated amount of matches. I suppose this gives a moderately good estimate of forum posts you have, although many posts on one thread page will not count, so it's not very accurate. Mentions of you where you have not spoken will also count.

Here are some I tried so I guess this is a leaderboard of sorts. I'll try to maintain it for a while if this thread acquires any popularity.

Hexzyle: 11,100 results
Bopp: 8,920 results
Zeddy: 7,350 results
Krakob: 5,780 results
Thunder-The-Bright: 5,270 results
Luguiru: 4,510 results
Fehzor: 3,930 results
Nick: 3,460 results
Eurydice: 3,170 results
Fangel: 2,390 results
Contri: 1,630 results

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:11

Bamzalot

I think mine lied.

1,150 forum posts showed up under my name. I'm pretty sure I haven't made that many posts yet. I'd be surprised if it was even 100.

EDIT: I am looking back through some of the older forum posts I've had. It makes me feel bad about myself. And the typos are painful...

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:06

Iapnez

Me (both my old name Malsvirbranea and this alt Malsvir-Branea) combine for 1860 results.

site:forums.spiralknights.com malsvir-branea

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:09

Pandafishie

1,340 o.x
I wouldn't say "leaderboard" since then it becomes more of a competition :/ Yeah, it's also not very accurate since some people will not comment on this. :P

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:32

Oroseira

Searching my name

I got 1,760 results from searching Moonstone-Shades.

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:41

Red-Galaxy

About 1,430 results (0.55

About 1,430 results (0.55 seconds)

Also when I looked at images I have a lot of whimsicality's pictures for some reason

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 18:56

Dimbreath

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 19:15

Fangel

Wot.

My name shows up with 2,520 results, and the second link down is a few people trying to decipher what the "F" in my name means.
It's just a letter, people.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 04:45

Thunder-The-Bright

gods ain't gonna help you, son.

it's... it's...

IT'S OVER 5000!

seriously, I don't think I made that many posts. in fact, it counts in-post references too.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 04:59

Krakob

Judging by what Bamzalot says, I think I'm gonna restrict the OP to people with at least 2000 results because I'm lazy. That said, I think I may try getting familiar with the Google Search Python API and write a script to autogenerate this list because Python is comfy and easy to write.

Additionally, I do realise that we get much better estimates by searching on forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/ rather than just forums.spiralknights.com, although doing so will exclude other language forums. However, it will also exclude search results and forums (for example, the 53rd page of General Discussion) in which you have posted. I'll convert to that if I write the script.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 05:11

#10

Midnight-Dj

Only 1550 results...

...

*a 50 megaton nuke detonated at Midnight-Dj's RL house*

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 05:21

#11

Zaffy-Laffy

Little-Juances - 12100
Njthug - 8020
Autofire - 7840 (may have some "autofire" suggestions instead, so numbers may be lower)
Psychodestroyer - 6940
Artistbma - 4570
Thinslayer - 3570
Zaffy-Laffy - 2850
Xxpapaya - 2610

You missed a lot of other forumers. Just saying. I missed some too. Missed as in missed missed. Sigh. The world is ever changing.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 06:06

#12

Klipik-Forum

Klipik (which would include Klipik and Klipik-forum): 7,540
Skyguarder (which includes benightz): 7,970

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 06:23

#13

Juvon

617 results :l

617 results

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 07:27

#14

Cross-Over

/Boop.

This looked like a little fun thing to do, so why not try it?
But I was dissapoint. Somewhat dissapoint.
I instead found Cross-Over threads such as TF2 originating from Gremlin Chatter and Treasure Vaults... Haha...
...This is why I can't have nice things.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 07:46

#15

Ironclaw-Mender

"About 17 results"

Moving up to the big leagues.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 09:06

#16

Addy

About 1,530 results Honestly

About 1,530 results

Honestly I thought it'd be a bit higher, but eh. I post on so many forums. ;_;

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 09:09

#17

Krakob

Currently writing a script for all this. Hopefully it will be done sometime today.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 09:24

#18

Autofire

You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

About 7,830 results.

Wait, I beat Zeddy!? D:

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 13:26

#19

Krakob

My script is finished but as I understand it, Google is blocking me from doing more than 100 searches per day, so I'll update this tomorrow.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 13:58

#20

Dragneel-Wiki

3120 on both Dragneel's.

Ugh, should spam more... :3

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 14:41

#21

Skepticraven

Heh.

Quantity is not the same as quality.
Spammers easily have more posts than me.

That being said, google will also grab any thread the name is mentioned in (as well as any thread with multiple pages add to multiple counts).

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 14:57

#22

Oroseira

Krakob.

Why am I not on the leaderboard?

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 15:32

#23

Mayaura

Hmm, not sure what this is counting exactly

Mawashimono (my previous id) - 5,960
Mayaura (my new name) - 9,260

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 15:33

#24

Pandafishie

Becos,

Life ain't fair.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 15:42

#25

Krakob

@Moonstone Shades

Because post 9 and 19.

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 18:17

#26

Crazee-Pi-Forum

Move over, there's bubble-wrap to be popped!

Got 2995 results, combining both my main and this alt. It doesn't really matter about the alt though, because it gives the five

EDIT: I also decided to do a google image search, and found this

I don't know why that involves me, but I agree

EDIT EDIT: whoops, searched the wrong thing for this alt. It's 3045, I think

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 17:46

#27

Klipik-Forum

If you search the same thing in images it brings up all the images linked in all the threads your name shows up in. :D

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 18:24

#28

Crazee-Pi-Forum

Move over, there's bubble-wrap to be popped!

I figured that.

I suggest you put my main (Pipipipipi) on your list here

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 20:40

#29

Pepperonius

I didn't realize I post this much

But over the years, I seem to have accumulated about 2500 posts, give or take. This is using both Perronius and Pepperonius in the search.

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 04:34

#30

Whimsicality

My new laptop is almost here, my return is nigh!

I get 2360 Results when searching "Whimsicality", but oddly enough, 21,900 results if I do "Whimsicality's" instead.
11500 results when searching "Hexzyle's" over "Hexzyle", 3,430 results when searching "Bopp's" over "Bopp".

I'm just bored and found that rather curious. I'm sure it doesn't really mean anything.

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 05:39

#31

Skepticraven

@Whimsicality

That got me thinking. One of the interesting auto-tags that can help limit the gigantic numbers is searching "'s picture." (with the quotes in the search).
This works because the html alt text for the forum picture is exactly that and it rarely appears outside the post generation.

Also, searching "Whimsicality's" for me only finds 941.

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 08:08

#32

Klipik-Forum

So it turns out the number decreases for some people drastically if you search the name with quotes around it or not.

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 08:21

#33

Thinslayer

About 3570 results.

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 10:06

#34

Hero-Of-Cheese

cheese is everywhere!

I got 1,750. At least I beat Contri

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 22:42

#35

Nechrome

Homestuck!

Either I'm doing something very very wrong
Or I have 39,500 results.

WHAT IS THIS

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 08:40

#36

Chromosver

Haha, its pretty low. That's so sad.
And here I was wondering how low it can get.
Ah, but then this place was all about the center of our universes, which is the self. Nothing surprising about this one.

Enjoy your popularity guys, you've earned it.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:49

#37

Krakob

So it turns out my script had a bug or two. No big deal, but I really ought to get around to fixing it.

@Lordofnecromancers
Try Googling with quotes around your name instead.

EDIT: the good news are that I finished the script and it works as intended. The bad news are that I'll hve to wait a day or so until Google lets me try again. I'll commit to the git repo in just a minute or so so if anyone would like to run the updated version and pastebin the generated HTML file, that'd be great. If not, we'll simply have to wait.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:41

#38

Rhagnarock

my 2 cents

Shamanalah will be forever stuck at 2,630

I got forum banned because of my last Thread. But my other accounts aren't so...

Rhag is at 269!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 16:50

#39

Contacterr

site:forums.spiralknights.com

site:forums.spiralknights.com erridunno (3,000+)

And I was perm banned over 2 years ago lol.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 19:31

#40

Toeni-Sevan

Looks like I'm at 904. I'd

Looks like I'm at 904. I'd say I'm okay with that.
You guys all still know who I am...right?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 19:56

#41

Crazee-Pi-Forum

Move over, there's bubble-wrap to be popped!

@Toeni-Sevan Nope!

EDIT: Well, this is weird

If I put in "Sir-Crazee-Pi's Picture," without the quotations, I get 501000 results, yet if I do my main who has been on the forums more, I only get 1510 results for putting picture at the end

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 19:54

#42

Midnight-Dj

@Tony-7

I think, I commented on one of your thread once... yeah, that is all I got sry :/

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 22:02

#43

Magnicth

Up on melancholy hill there's a plastic tree

Only ~1,150? Lame. I'm really disappointed with myself. Granted, I was gone for almost a year and have just recently returned, but still. Guess I have some catching up to do.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 00:03

#44

Hollafamer

2,250 results

oh cool got 2250. Back when I did a ton of merching I made quite a few posts. Course haven't taken this game serious in two years if was playing all that time might have been over 9000!!!!!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 01:02

#45

Sundaypunch

bleep bloop

measly 55 lol I actually thought I posted much less than that

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 05:42

#46

Skepticraven

@Pi

The proper limitation for the best estimate search terms would be...

site:forums.spiralknights.com "Username's picture."

Quotes are needed to ensure only those specific terms are searched (otherwise it will see picture in every post). Apostrophe s is needed as well to only capture the alt-text from the image. Finally, a profile picture for the user being searched is required as well (otherwise it that alt-text will not appear). Username should be replaced with the username you wish to search.

Having the username only will roughly double to triple the assumed post count (because username is mentioned at minimum 2 times per post in alt-text). Additionally, no quotes will grab any mention or "close" mention similar to the username. If the username is close to another word (ex: Lordofnecromancers), it will search for all instances of similar words (lord and necromancers) as well (giving around a 30x inflation of estimated post count).

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 08:42

#47

Klipik-Forum

If I put in "Klipik-forum's

If I put in "Klipik-forum's picture" I get 13,300, but if I just do Klipik-Forum I only get 6k and "Klipik-Forum" I get 4k.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 14:36

#48

Poomph

Name yielded 13,000 results, I think Name is the most popular forummer.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 17:30

#49

Klipik-Forum

nope

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 18:38

#50

Krakob

Whoa, this A guy is more popular than I. I thought I was the most well known forumer of all time.

In other news, I'm forgetful herpaderp. Will be updating the name list and doing a search tomorrow, the sun is almost up in Stockholm so I should go to bed now.