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Posted: **Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:57 pm**

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Given the last thread is dead and there seemed to be demand for it... Got Issues Rankings II!

Formatting Points:
Co-Authorships are counted as equal to a submitting authorship. See here.
Authorships are counted basically by nation, however, I can add exceptions for known puppets. If you own (or you know someone else owns) a puppet on this list, let me know.
Ties are given a single ranking. So if you've authored 1 issue, you tie with the numerous other single-issue nations in last place.
Order is by rank, then by most-recent issue authorship.

Currently on the 5th regeneration, including issues from #0 through to #1549.

I would like to clarify that I believe Got Issues? does its best work when we collaborate as a team. Non-competitiveness is key here, and no-one should ever feel inadequate or unworthy to comment based on a rank, number, or scale. This list is provided purely for interesting reading, and maybe a little bit of friendly rivalry, but under no circumstances is this list to be used to belittle anyone else's contributions to Got Issues.

Posted: **Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:13 am**

Your numbers are a little off, I guess that's because you're not quite up to date.

My total is 93, at the moment, for example.
Baggie has 27, Jutsa has 26. Ransium 25, FuF 24.

But yeah, the orders are approximately right.

Posted: **Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:25 am**

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Your numbers are a little off, I guess that's because you're not quite up to date.

My total is 93, at the moment, for example.
Baggie has 27, Jutsa has 26. Ransium 25, FuF 24.

But yeah, the orders are approximately right.

That's mostly an artefact of my list only reaching #1319, although I will note that a couple misspellings and formatting bungles have resulted in duplicate authors.

FuF, for example, was credited twice as "frieden-und freudenland" and "frieden-und-freudenland", so her 24 was split into 20 and 3 - this has now been rectified. A similar problem occurred with "annihilators of chan island", who was credited once as "annihlators of chan island".

I've skimmed quite a few times for other mistakes but the wall-of-text nature of the rankings makes spotting spelling errors a bit tricky, especially when most of them aren't dictionary words anyway.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:13 am**

How often does this get updated?

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:21 am**

And to add on, I reckon that it will be easier for you as of now if you are using the Issues Megathread. As far as I am concerned, minus the most recent issue (1370), everything should more or less be accounted for! ♥

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:10 am**

I'll take this moment to point out I've only got 25 and in good conscience find Aussie to be the primary author of the one.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:38 pm**

Honeydewistania wrote:How often does this get updated?

Whenever I can go through and regenerate the rankings, which RN involves me expanding my computerised list, and due to some irritable formatting inconsistencies in the early days of the Spoiler List (the dashed lines between issues change length several times, for instance) that can be somewhat difficult. Now that it's on Github, it might become more frequent, but I make no promises!

Valentine Z wrote:And to add on, I reckon that it will be easier for you as of now if you are using the Issues Megathread. As far as I am concerned, minus the most recent issue (1370), everything should more or less be accounted for! ♥

I'll see if I can get my list up to #1370 sometime today.

Jutsa wrote:I'll take this moment to point out I've only got 25 and in good conscience find Aussie to be the primary author of the one.

~~my list is old enough that you've only got 23...~~
I'll try and put in a manual exception for that one (if I can find it... What's the ID#?), if you wish.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:09 pm**

After some incessant nagging* about this list, I've now updated the rankings all the way to #1370.

Notably, people moving around has combined ranks and pushed up all the single-issue authors out there from 26th to 24th!
Also, #1353 and #1363 being as-yet-unreported has prevented me from adding them, despite having suspicions of who may be the author(s).

*it got bumped once...

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:46 pm**

I... didn't realize I was that high on the ranks. O_o

Course, personally, I consider Chan to be the real fourth place seeing as both Chan Island and Annihilators of Chan Island are his, with a grand total of 32 issues. But that as an aside, love the list.

Posted: **Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:21 pm**

Jutsa wrote:I... didn't realize I was that high on the ranks. O_o

Course, personally, I consider Chan to be the real fourth place seeing as both Chan Island and Annihilators of Chan Island are his, with a grand total of 32 issues. But that as an aside, love the list.

Only just found this post and gotta say 1) Thanks for the mention. And 2) Preach, brother!

Looking forward to seeing the list completely updated.

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:26 am**

So it looks like with the new chain, Pogaria's up to third; that's a crazy jump!

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:47 pm**

Bah, if you have more than 7 issues, you basically just have 7 issues. They're all the same after that.

Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:06 pm**

Fauxia wrote:Bah, if you have more than 7 issues, you basically just have 7 issues. They're all the same after that.

Interesting choice of a number…

(By the way, best of luck with Meet Meat; that'll get you to eight!

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Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:40 pm**

Authoritaria-Imperia wrote:
Fauxia wrote:Bah, if you have more than 7 issues, you basically just have 7 issues. They're all the same after that.
Interesting choice of a number…
(By the way, best of luck with Meet Meat; that'll get you to eight! )

It's funny how the threshold rises whenever I get a new one published. Wonder why that is

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:53 am**

Aaaaaaaaand, updated! Now including all authorships up to #1427. (minus #1380 and #1420, neither of which have been reported)

Notably, the MADness issue chain has pushed Pogaria up to only 1 issue away from Max's total of 35 issues.

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:54 am**

Aw yeah

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:02 am**

SherpDaWerp wrote:Aaaaaaaaand, updated! Now including all authorships up to #1427. (minus #1380 and #1420, neither of which have been reported)

Notably, the MADness issue chain has pushed Pogaria up to only 1 issue away from Max's total of 35 issues.

Officially, I have 37 + one issue where I'm listed as the second author. I wrote 695, 747, 1041, 1197, 1219, 1275, and the 31 issues in the chain - one of which hasn't been reported yet. 1059 is the co-author credit.

(I'm not overly concerned about rankings - I'm just pedantic.)

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:33 pm**

Pogaria wrote:
SherpDaWerp wrote:Aaaaaaaaand, updated! Now including all authorships up to #1427. (minus #1380 and #1420, neither of which have been reported)

Notably, the MADness issue chain has pushed Pogaria up to only 1 issue away from Max's total of 35 issues.

Officially, I have 37 + one issue where I'm listed as the second author. I wrote 695, 747, 1041, 1197, 1219, 1275, and the 31 issues in the chain - one of which hasn't been reported yet. 1059 is the co-author credit.

(I'm not overly concerned about rankings - I'm just pedantic.)

Last night I noticed that a few issues were missing from my computerised list, despite being part of the recorded spoiler list - those were #1363, #1379, and #1399. I'm going through the process of adding them now (and while I'm manually adding, I'll do #1428 as well), but every time I update something, I notice something else is broken... it's the world's worst game of whack-a-mole.

Please do keep telling me if you notice an error in the rankings, however, as I can't go through every author and check whether their totals match what I've got. I'm currently looking into why your (Pogaria's) nation page total states "x36", which is what I've got, but I'm of the impression that you're the author of #1380 (unreported) which would mean your total on my list is 37. You've said 37 here, and presumably you'd know, which matches up with what I've got, but the game showing 36 throws a spanner in the works.

Finally, please note that as I alluded to earlier, I've decided it's easier to not record unreported issues in my list (to save hassle later when they do get reported), which means #1353 (presumably Electrum), #1380 (presumably Pogaria), and #1420 (presumably Refuge Isle) aren't counted in this list. It's your fault for writing an issue that no-one can find!

EDIT: Updated to #1428 minus the 3 unreported. Still haven't figured out what issue of Pogaria's is getting counted twice/not counted.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:18 pm**

SherpDaWerp wrote: I'm currently looking into why your (Pogaria's) nation page total states "x36", which is what I've got, but I'm of the impression that you're the author of #1380 (unreported) which would mean your total on my list is 37. You've said 37 here, and presumably you'd know, which matches up with what I've got, but the game showing 36 throws a spanner in the works.

#747 was added later (out of order), as some people may recall. We had to put in a placeholder that wasn't credited to me. When we changed the placeholder to the actual issue, my "issues author" badge wasn't updated - it only does that when you first add an issue, not if the authorship is updated.

I never cared enough to ask anyone to fix it. Game Mods are busy people.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:44 pm**

Well, that might've made sense before the chain. I don't think there's a ton of difference between 36 and 37 issues, lol.

Does Sanctaria's number have the same problem then? IIRC, World Assembly Woes was a similar situation as 747.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:36 pm**

Pogaria wrote:
SherpDaWerp wrote: I'm currently looking into why your (Pogaria's) nation page total states "x36", which is what I've got, but I'm of the impression that you're the author of #1380 (unreported) which would mean your total on my list is 37. You've said 37 here, and presumably you'd know, which matches up with what I've got, but the game showing 36 throws a spanner in the works.

#747 was added later (out of order), as some people may recall. We had to put in a placeholder that wasn't credited to me. When we changed the placeholder to the actual issue, my "issues author" badge wasn't updated - it only does that when you first add an issue, not if the authorship is updated.

I never cared enough to ask anyone to fix it. Game Mods are busy people.

Right, ok. I figured it was either a bug with the game or a bug with my program(s), and while I couldn't see anything wrong with my stuff it wouldn't have been at all surprising to me that I was still doing something wrong. If it's a known problem (that the main affectee doesn't care that much about) then it doesn't worry me.

Fauxia wrote:Does Sanctaria's number have the same problem then? IIRC, World Assembly Woes was a similar situation as 747.

It doesn't appear that way - Sanctaria's nation page states 19, which matches up with the spoiler lists.

Posted: **Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:02 am**

Hello again! This time, we're up to #1455 (with exceptions for #1353, #1380, and #1452). Notable points:

CWA's hit triple digits!
Co-Authorship now counts towards the list!
28 ranks, up from 26 last time!

Congratulations to all those newly added to the list, as well as everyone who just got to see their little number go up by one.

Posted: **Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:05 am**

I’ve got 2 published issues but the list says I have 1 :pikathink:

Posted: **Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:33 am**

Honeydewistania wrote:I’ve got 2 published issues but the list says I have 1 ikathink:

Fixed. For the record, "#1454: #1454: Poplar Opinion [Honeydewistania, ed: Candlewhisper Archive]" doesn't exactly parse well as an issue title when the first thing I check for is a colon. And I think I'm going to have to start checking semicolons or commas, what with how often it seems to cause problems.

If there are any other issues - anyone's noticed their total or another's total is wrong - don't hesitate to correct me!

Posted: **Sun Apr 18, 2021 5:26 am**

No, I assume you can only do this by nation.

Chan Island, of course, has two nations with a hefty sum of issues. Drasnia and Sedge each have an issue published via puppets, and Unibot has several issues by four different nations.