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FA Rank, also known as FARank (pronounced FAH-rank), is a ranking website created by Taren Nauxen. It ranks the users on Fur Affinity in terms of relative popularity, which is determined by a complex algorithm.[1] FA Rank was hosted on Taren's personal website, superwailingbonus.com, but is now hosted on Popufur.com.


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[edit] Popufur.com

On July 1st, 2010, Taren announced that FA Rank had been moved to its own website, separate from his personal website. The address, Popufur.com, was chosen and appropriated by Varka.[2]

[edit] FARankFuRTer

The new website also came with the long awaited update system, coined the FARankFuRTer v1.0, which stands for the FA Rank Future Release Terminal version 1.0. This page is a Java applet that utilizes the CPU cycles of visitors to the page, in order to draw information from the Fur Affinity server. In this manner, the more people on the update page at once, the quicker the information is accessed and the sooner a new update occurs.[2][3]

However, in order to lessen strain on the FA servers, the applet only accesses the information of one person per minute, for each user running the updater.[3]

[edit] Ranking Algorithm

The ranking score algorithm is based similarly to the algorithm used by Google on its PageRank system. Like that system, which worked on probabilities of a person surfing the internet finding a site randomly, the FA Rank system works on the chance of randomly following watch links and the probability of finding specific users in that fashion.

Thus, the more watchers a user has, then the more likely it is that a random surfer will click onto their userpage from one of their watchers' pages. Furthermore, having a person with a large number of watchers watching a second user will boost that second user much higher than having a user watch them that has little watchers of their own. However, the more users that a "famous" user is watching, the less of a boost each of them gets from that user.

[edit] Format

FA Rank is composed of seven different columns that list users and various types of information about them.

The first column is a numerical counting of ranks, starting at 1 and continuing from there. If this rank number for a specific user is clicked, it provides a breakdown for that user and all of the updates that FA Rank has made and how that user's position has fluctuated over time. This breakdown page also has an extra column that contains a percentage, which indicates the percentage of users on FA that the user in question is higher than.

The second column, illustrated by an upper-case delta symbol to indicate change, shows the amount in terms of position that a user has changed since the last time the site updated. An equals sign indicates that there has been no change in position. A blue arrow to the side indicates that the user was not on the list prior to the latest update.

The third column is the list of user names, all of which act as links to the user's FA page.

The fourth column lists the number of watchers that a specific user had when the site updated.

The fifth column lists the number of users that the user in question is watching.

The sixth column lists the number of page views for their user page that the user has.

The seventh column lists the number of times that the user's submissions have been favorited by other users.

[edit] Trivia

On the main page of FA Rank, there is a counter at the bottom that reads, "So far, (number) people have left the fandom because of this site." Ironically, this number has nothing to do with what it states, but is instead a page view counter for FA Rank, calculating the number of visitors to the site.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ FA Rank Help page
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "AC hat sales // FARankFuRTer v1.0 // Popufur.com Launched " - Taren
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 FA Rank Future Release Terminal Page

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