I've seen too much misinformation floating around about how to rank up in ASF. To clear things up and help everyone rank up efficiently, I've put together these guidelines.
First, let me explain how things work:
At Anime-Sharing, we use a highly sophisticated ranking system known as the Rank Maker System (RMS). The RMS evaluates each active member's performance every few hours and assigns them a score. This score can be positive or negative, depending entirely on your activities during that period. Once you meet a total score threshold, you will be assigned the rank, up or down. Something like >10 = Otome Basic, >20 = Otome Plus, >30 = Otome Supereme.
So, what activities are positive? In a nutshell, the highest scores go to members who are legitimately helpful to the community. There are different classes of actions—some earn you more points, some earn you less, and others will definitely earn you negative scores.
Highly Positive (+++) Actions
- Helping others: Answering questions and helping members with various technical issues (troubleshooting, emulation, etc.). This often happens naturally while simply chatting with each other.
- Creating content: Writing guides (such as ripping guides or walkthroughs), posting news articles, and sharing useful information.
- Fulfilling requests: Helping to reupload dead links and fulfilling member requests.
Moderately Positive (++) Actions
- Engaging in discussions: Talking about what you love, whether that means creating a new thread or actively replying to an existing one.
- Being social: Casually chatting with everyone on a daily basis.
Joining events: Participating in moderator-hosted events, if any are active.
- Neutral actions help offset negative scores a little, but without any actual positive actions, you will still end up in the red.
- Casual browsing: Logging in and surfing around every few weeks.
- Lurking: Reading threads without participating.
- Playing fair: Not using any botting software to do the above. (We know what you use.)
Negative (- -) Actions
It's important to understand that everyone will occasionally incur some negative actions; however, as long as you have enough positive actions to offset them, you will be fine.
- Automated posting: Using automated software to participate in discussions.
- Light farming: Using automated software to post answers that don't actually solve the issue. (This is different from heavy farming).
- Leeching: Downloading heavily without contributing any positive actions to the community.
- Spamming: Trying to earn rank fast by spamming posts. At a certain point, the RMS will stop counting your positive actions, and only your negative actions will apply.
The RMS knows who is intentionally cheating. These actions fall into the bad behavior category and will result in severe penalties or account resets.
- Heavy farming: Cloning a lot of accounts and having them interact with each other. The RMS knows what you are doing and how you do it, so please don't bother.
- Account trading: Sharing, buying, or selling your accounts. This instantly results in a complete rank reset.
- Heavy spamming: Purposefully spamming just to meet a requirement. It doesn't work, and it will harm your account further.
- Toxicity: Flaming, gaslighting, and trolling. While authentic criticism can net you positive action, trolling and flaming do not.
- Malicious content: Posting malware or any other harmful content.
What Doesn't Matter (No Impact on Rank)
- Language: Talking in another language. The RMS understands all languages used on the forum.
- Device: Using a mobile device, desktop, or a combination of both.
- Connection type: Using a VPN, proxy, privacy-focused OS, or specific browser. As long as you aren't using a bot farm or a farming service, you are perfectly fine.
Here are some specific examples of how different activity levels affect your rank:
Positive (++):
- You log in every day, chat naturally (e.g., 100 messages), like a few posts, and download some things.
- You log in once a month, reupload dead links, and download a lot of things.
- You log in once a week, write guides, chat with members, and download stuff.
- You log in once every six months, never post anything, and only download files.
- You create a fake thread, use a bot farm, or clone to give you fake interaction, ping pong each other. It won't work. The more you do it, the more negative points cumulates.
- You log in once a year and wonder why you lost your status. At this point, the RMS has automatically removed your rank, pending re-evaluation. You won't lose all points, but it needs to re-evaluate if you had sold or transferred your account, or see something else going on.
- You figure out how the ranking works, sell your account, and make a new account to try and rank up again. Both the account you sold and your new account will be permanently banned. Bans from ASF are permanent.
- You use a bot farm. SaaS forum automation, claw, LLM, or your custom vibe code software. You're welcome to try at your own demise, but you will get the same result as above.
Final Thoughts
Most people will earn the Qualified rank within 14 days just by doing the bare minimum. Those who are highly active and genuinely engage with the community can get it in 7 days. On the other hand, those who spam trying to rank up will see a much longer time to qualify, and that's only if they change course and stop spamming.
I am lenient with anyone who makes a genuine mistake. If you truly love otome games and participate authentically, you will qualify. Most negative action will stop affecting your account after 6 months, some last as short as 30 days from the day you stop, but you will still need positive action to increase your rank.
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