Very nice site :D
It's funny that people actually left because of it XD

It's actually just a just a hit counter :P

OH xD

#990 (98.16%) for me. No surprise who is #1:  blotch

Hiya.

3414 (93.67%) for me

I dig this. It's neat to see that not only good artists are getting some top ranks, but ACTIVE commenters and supporters have as well.

Not sure if this is such a great idea :o

Heheh, that's cool! ^^

Really nice!

Quick suggestion: As far as I can tell I can only jump five pages at a time when browsing ranks. Could you make a drop down that shows every number in five page or something intervals?

dur, I can just type it into the url

When does the drama begin? :D

This site has the best hit counter EVER.

ATTN POPULARITY WHORING ALERT!

Thank you for making this System...but hopefully this does not give anyone on FA the Ammunition to create a pissing contest among artists.

A great cotribution to FA. This should be part of the site itself. Great job!

You are a genius. I laugh at the "_____people have left the fandom because of this site." Does that calculate how many people have deleted their accounts in general or is it accurately based on the real thing?

Hehe awesome, but oddly enough I have 1228 watchers but your database says I only have 1178 :D

Is it one of those systems that updates every so often ? :D

All the same its quite epic, well done n..n

No offence, but it's useless. Completely useless. You do not rank artists in their fame or popularity. Of course I understand you if you made this just for fun to make people get their answers on "Who is the most popular artist we know here on FA?"...


...but eitherways this project will start another drama going on here. This, in my mind, is nothing but a joke that jokes with artists free will to show their own skills, sight of their own imagination and improve with their art, if they so want to. After all, art is about expressing yourself, not a race of popularity. (This would discourage some of the newer members of FA to even try post their art, if they are weak from their own heart.)


This gains no respect from me at all. End of my thoughts.

lol

Nobody cares, we loves stats.

Jesus fuck I'm being pulled back into 2008 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You too?

Hm, you're giving (mostly) teenagers an objective means of assessing how popular they are in their chosen peer group?

This could be used for a sociology study

Hai! i has a question...


Why the hell did you decide to make this?

Because all the users on FA that are geeks -need- their statistics to evaluate how perfect they are or are not <3

*shakes head* Truly pathetic individuals...

people who appreciate information you don't care about are pathetic?

No, people that need to have an ego boost because they feel the need to know how well they're doing on some website...THAT is pathetic...and that's why I don't care about it.

Then shut up?

you should update it like once a month xD

Gasp! Statistics!

I appreciate this, and I'll have some (maybe) cheeky questions right off the bat (I'll be happy if you just give me vague pointers or send me the hell away to figure it out myself). I've been thinking to plot graphs of this place if I'll get really bored during the summer.

How did you get all the relation info? Did you extract it from the watching/watched popups or some more direct queries?
Are there more statistical initiations about FA like this? (sorry, I didn't really read about you just saw the site linked, clicked the maker, wham question. You may have had previous posts about it or whatever)

I pulled the data from these pages:
http://www.furaffinity.net/budslist.....p;mode=watches

If you'd like to know more, PM me and I can explain it in more detail.

Aha, I see, that'll do.
Thanks.

927 I think this is pretty neat lol

Very interesting!

I'm wondering if you've considered implementing a way to directly compare two or more users? For example, "muzz" and "sputnik" (being the same person, it's interesting to see how the two compare). I know I can manually look up each, but maybe some kind of search option that could display multiple results?

I see this from two poitns. From a technical point of view. i got to say my respect you did very nice and intressting work.

From the FA user side of view I must ask. Why or for what do we need this? The ranking does definitly show a dividing between the popular and non popular people. It even descripts in there help page that less popular people are less worthy... is that what you wanted to point out? I hope not!

You've caused a shit ton of journal entires...

It's annoying

Otherwise ty for site. How did you manage to get the listing?

OMG!!! I'm 184 on the list!!!
*Faint* =X_x=

In after shitstorm. :)

Haha, but seriously this is a neat toy. Please don't take it down!

heh, if anything this can definitely be used as a confidence booster. Not to say you should take the ranking seriously or try to say you're better than another, that's all based on opinion.

But it's a nice way just for kicks to see if your rank goes up, kinda like how achievements work, you don't loiter that you have the most achievements, you just are happy you got them.

o, my rank is

3566 (93.39%) it's slightly refreshing I've come so far in under a year ^^ maybe that'll change in the future.

oh lordy did you seriously scrape tens of thousands of watchlists to get this

cute app but that's kinda impolite :/

keheh, seems FA didn’t really feel that :P

This is awesome.

Such drama has been created and I think that's great.

I dont think its accurate. it got my watches and watchers wrong.

not only you. 23 persons vanished in my watch list. and there are there for already several months ^^

How dare you take information that is 100% publicly accessible and put it in a database that is simple and quick to use? For shame, sir.

*giggles* You've earned a cookie.

Yay! Stats!

Must have taken quite a while to scrape all those pages, though... I've been hoping for an FA API myself for quite some time now.

wheres the dramafest?!
all im seeing is journalfest...

1. A quote from your explanation of the algorithm: "This continues until at some point, each user ends the day with exactly as much money as they started with."

This sentence is not congruous with the rest of your explanation. Those who have not been befriended are irreversibly broke after the first iteration of the algorithm as stated in the example. What are you trying to say? That the nodes' values are reset whenever you run the algorithm again? I tried carrying over the values on an arbitrary example, and while the particular example lead to an interesting oscillation over several iterations, it didn't seem too useful, so I don't think that's what you're doing. Speaking of "useful"...

2. In its current form, it's an interesting (and, as you yourself admit through the language of your hit counter, potentially divisive) experiment in quantifying social networking.

But does it have any value other than fueling popularity pissing matches? Are you hoping that something valuable comes from this, or is this truly for your own enjoyment, in whatever area(s) that might be?

3. It appears that you are calculating the result in floating point, normalizing the values to fit the 0-10^6 range, then truncating to get a nice integer value for display. However, this---and if not this, then whatever you are doing---is leading to some inconsistencies. For instance, from page 45:

T8820 (83.65%) therian 7608 97 177
T8820 (83.65%) daison 7607 107 461


I can completely understand giving two users different rankings even though they appear to have the same rating (which in fact happens just above this example), but the converse I do not understand; it would seem to me that under the system you've created, equal ranking should imply equal rating, and this, as you can see, doesn't hold.

1. Users that have zero watchers simply aren't included in this. Even if they were included, there's a measure called the "damping effect" that would prevent them from truly being broke.

I know I have some at the end, but there was a little hiccup in the program as I ran this and they got included anyway. (I think they were all watched by one person who deleted their account after I located them but before I cached their watch list.)

This damping effect also takes care of users with zero outbound watches, so the "flow" doesn't simply stop with them. I could explain the math in a PM if you're truly interested.

2. Not really. I wanted to apply some of the concepts I learned in school this semester, and share the results. It's just kind of a neat little thing.

3. The users' 'scores' are actually somewhere between 0.983 and 2.3, so I did normalize. Now that I look at it, there is some inconsistency in the code. Whoops! Busted. I have fixed this- thanks!

Hahah, I just used it to find some noted artists. I can learn by watchin' those guys.

So I guess I owe you a debt of gratitude. Thank you.

Seriously dude, this thing is a great idea. Like some folks have said before me, this ranking system allows me to look at some really top quality artists in a snap!

And for a site without a freaking search feature, this ranking system is the next best thing!

Thanks for all your hard work.

I say, the scoundrel!

Sometimes I randomly stumble on an artist that is incredible and add them, only to find out that I was the last one to know because everyone seems to be watching them already. I think this tool will be kinda neat to go through and maybe find some artists I'm not familiar with.

thanks for making people whine and cry and all. Okay, you had a hard job on it, but you should have known better and cancelled it in the start.... sighs. However. I bow to you for the hard work. and sigh for the trouble you casued. thanks. btw. I don't care for my rank

LOL if people are whining and crying over their Furaffinity popularity rank, they have problems of their own.

Oh, before I sound to angry here: I also sigh about those who leaving because of this. It is just statistics. ^^ However. Have a nice day ^^

No one is actually leaving - it's just a hit counter.

well then... I surely believe some thinking about it. But.. Oh, just forget about it ^^ I said I don't care and shall at least keep on my own words ^^

I'm #3702! Honestly I thought I'd be a lot lower... Surprising! :D Cool ranky thing! It shall both boost and bruise many egos!

Hahaha, wonderful.

How often will you be updating? :) I think its really cool though I feel a bit weird about it hehe

Awesome, this is something I've been dying to see on this site.. I can view other artists this way...
I would've called it FA Watcher Rank...