Real ID Thread Statistics (us)

Data relating to the Real ID thread on the World of Warcraft community forums. (See also: us, de, uk, ru, es, fr)

UPDATE: The original post on the North American forums is now locked, as Blizzard will no longer require posting under your real name.

Pages in Thread

• Pages with the least posts:
  1. 501 (5 posts)
  2. 42 (10 posts)
  3. 1664 (10 posts)
  4. 79 (11 posts)
  5. 500 (11 posts)

Posts in Thread

• Highest post number scanned: 49,879
• Total posts: 44,801
• Deleted posts: 5,078 (10.18%)*†

* Value updated continuously as pages are rescanned for deleted posts. May not be 100% accurate.
† Includes moderated posts (trolling, CAPSLOCK, spam, etc.) and self-deleted posts.

Characters in Thread

• Unique characters: 13,653
• Repeat posters: 6,020 (44.09%)
• Mean posts/character: 3.28
• Mean posts/character (repeat posters): 7.44
• Median posts/character: 1
• Top 5 characters:
  1. Tumbles of Wyrmrest Accord (303 posts)
  2. Merisioux of Kirin Tor (281 posts)
  3. Angaravan of Cenarion Circle (181 posts)
  4. Daedera of Haomarush (166 posts)
  5. Adnan of Garona (165 posts)
• All characters, with post count
• Top 5 Guilds by Posts:
  1. <The Twilight Blades> of Wyrmrest Accord (303 posts, 1 character)
  2. <Proactive Valkyries> of Kirin Tor (281 posts, 1 character)
  3. <Rated R> of Haomarush (170 posts, 1 character)
  4. <FibonacciSequence> of Khadgar (117 posts, 2 characters)
  5. <Big Crits> of Sen'jin (111 posts, 3 characters)
• Top 5 Guilds by Characters:
  1. <alea iacta est> of Earthen Ring (18 characters, 38 posts)
  2. <Con Brio> of Doomhammer (11 characters, 12 posts)
  3. <Taint> of Proudmoore (10 characters, 24 posts)
  4. <Most Wanted> of Tichondrius (10 characters, 23 posts)
  5. <The Grim> of Twisting Nether (9 characters, 11 posts)

The following graphs are generated every five minutes with a datapoint every 498 posts (highest post / 100).

Mean Posts/Character over Time

New Posts vs. New Characters

Showing post count increase compared to total number of unique characters in the thread.

New Posts by Hour

Source Code

Now on github: http://github.com/abackstrom/realid-post-scraper

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