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Can we add a feature in the character profile that displays their current rank or popularity?

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Oct 31, 2023 5:14 PM
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While the number of votes of a character can be seen in a character's pages but we don't exactly know their ranks in this site unless you visit the top characters section. However that section is only limited to 1050 and while we know who are the characters ranking from 1 to 1050, we don't exactly know how the rest fair in the rankings. Similar to the anime and manga pages where the rankings and popularity are featured, a character profile should at least display their current rank or popularity.
Oct 31, 2023 7:11 PM
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OMG
this is just a bug actually

The pages after 1050 do exist, but the next page button does not show up, so you have to manually increment the number on the URL

https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=1150
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Nov 1, 2023 1:42 AM
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OMG
this is just a bug actually

The pages after 1050 do exist, but the next page button does not show up, so you have to manually increment the number on the URL

https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=1150
@hacker09 I'm aware of that and I have done it before but to be honest, I find it to be a hassle manually incrementing the number on the URL just to see the next page. Unless there is a person, who had all the time in the world, they feel free to do so. But I think it's more convenient to see a characters' current rankings on their pages.
Nov 1, 2023 9:09 AM
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makes sense
I could do that, but I'm not sure if I'll

right now there are
https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=167950 characters
which are 167950/50=3359 pages
if I fetch each page with a 5 sec delay, it would take almost 5 hours to get all needed data for all characters
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Dec 4, 2023 3:22 PM
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Another nice script!

I wish https://metamal.pro/seasonal/2023/fall#characters could also show stats for ALL characters but they only show the 15 hottest at the moment. Hmm, could MetaMAL be somewhat incorporated in the script? πŸ€”
Dec 4, 2023 10:02 PM
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Another nice script!

I wish https://metamal.pro/seasonal/2023/fall#characters could also show stats for ALL characters but they only show the 15 hottest at the moment. Hmm, could MetaMAL be somewhat incorporated in the script? πŸ€”
@IridescentJaune

Thanks!

But no... I did not find an easy way to do that, MAL usually just forgets to add next-page buttons for example, but that page was properly made, so the dev didn't just forget to add a next-page button or something dumb like that.

But he is a nice guy though, U can ask him https://metamal.pro/contact

*IF you do tell him that it's a shame that he still uses IRC hhaha
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Dec 4, 2023 10:10 PM
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hacker09 said:
@IridescentJaune

Thanks!

But no... I did not find an easy way to do that, MAL usually just forgets to add next-page buttons for example, but that page was properly made, so the dev didn't just forget to add a next-page button or something dumb like that.

But he is a nice guy though, U can ask him https://metamal.pro/contact

*IF you do tell him that it's a shame that he still uses IRC hhaha

Alright. Thanks for the response. I think they just chose to show only 15 (same with the other categories or stats on their site) not that they forgot to add the next button or something…
Dec 4, 2023 10:15 PM
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makes sense
I could do that, but I'm not sure if I'll

right now there are
https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=167950 characters
which are 167950/50=3359 pages
if I fetch each page with a 5 sec delay, it would take almost 5 hours to get all needed data for all characters
@hacker09 Oh, btw thanks for the link https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=167950 to the last page/end. πŸ˜„
Dec 4, 2023 10:18 PM

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IridescentJaune said:
@hacker09 Oh, btw thanks for the link https://myanimelist.net/character.php?limit=167950 to the last page/end. πŸ˜„

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Dec 8, 2023 12:41 AM

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@hacker09

Posts like that make me believe someone uses MAL for some kind of bot practice.




I've also seen some possible bots try to replicate a conversation with normal users and posting no links, seemed to be AI based and using information from other forum posts. That's when it gets really difficult to 100% out a user as a bot. Decent AI + bot + spam links might be insane.

Dec 8, 2023 1:15 AM

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Shishio-kun said:
@hacker09

Posts like that make me believe someone uses MAL for some kind of bot practice.




I've also seen some possible bots try to replicate a conversation with normal users and posting no links, seemed to be AI based and using information from other forum posts. That's when it gets really difficult to 100% out a user as a bot. Decent AI + bot + spam links might be insane.


that's going to be bad
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Dec 8, 2023 1:15 AM

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Shishio-kun said:
@hacker09

Posts like that make me believe someone uses MAL for some kind of bot practice.




I've also seen some possible bots try to replicate a conversation with normal users and posting no links, seemed to be AI based and using information from other forum posts. That's when it gets really difficult to 100% out a user as a bot. Decent AI + bot + spam links might be insane.


btw are u even real?
I doubt the world right now maybe we live inside matrix
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Dec 8, 2023 2:15 AM

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Shishio-kun said:
@hacker09

Posts like that make me believe someone uses MAL for some kind of bot practice.




I've also seen some possible bots try to replicate a conversation with normal users and posting no links, seemed to be AI based and using information from other forum posts. That's when it gets really difficult to 100% out a user as a bot. Decent AI + bot + spam links might be insane.


btw are u even real?
I doubt the world right now maybe we live inside matrix
πŸ˜‚
@hacker09

me πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

Dec 8, 2023 12:01 PM

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@hacker09

me πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

@Shishio-kun

This post got my like

What is that anime called again?
I think I have watched it and I liked it...
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Dec 8, 2023 9:29 PM

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@Shishio-kun

This post got my like

What is that anime called again?
I think I have watched it and I liked it...
@hacker09

I believe it was Ghost in Shell movie #2


Dec 18, 2023 1:25 AM

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Shishio-kun said:
@hacker09

Posts like that make me believe someone uses MAL for some kind of bot practice.




I've also seen some possible bots try to replicate a conversation with normal users and posting no links, seemed to be AI based and using information from other forum posts. That's when it gets really difficult to 100% out a user as a bot. Decent AI + bot + spam links might be insane.


that's going to be bad
@hacker09

Master of the ad bots to the 5 MAL admins 😭😭😭

Dec 18, 2023 8:21 AM

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Shishio-kun said:
@hacker09

Master of the ad bots to the 5 MAL admins 😭😭😭


πŸ˜‚

it's a sad time for Mal, let them be πŸ˜‚
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Jan 9, 7:00 PM

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Hi, so I just realized that we can check old stats on MetaMAL by changing the year and season on this link https://metamal.pro/seasonal/YEAR/SEASON or https://metamal.pro/seasonal/YEAR/SEASON#characters for character stats.


It's just that only the "15 hottest characters" are shown per season. It would be nice if they show the stats over time for ALL characters in one page or more...

Anyways, at least we can use hacker09's Character pages Fix - MAL script to check all the character pages. MAL should really include all pages (~168,000 characters) in their 'Characters' pagination instead of just showing the top 1,050 characters.

Oh, I'm just gonna leave MetaMAL's repo/source code here too:
https://gitlab.com/metamal

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