Quoting your latest edit of the thread.
Gabgab wrote:thread is obsolete now since realmplayers implemented our server to their list, refer to it for rankings and available guilds (though need more hordes with the addon/program)
this thread will be deleted eventually and no longer updated
http://realmplayers.com/GuildList.aspx?realm=NRB
While it is true that RealmPlayers is able to track available active guilds quite good. There are still some issues that means having a standalone thread such as this(?) with screenshot requiring server/horde/alliance first kills and even progress may be a good idea.
As it is right now RealmPlayers generates the guild progress by looking at items aquired by players within the guild. This means that sometimes guild progress may display "wrongly" if a boss has not been killed enough times or players with items from the boss have left the guild. It is after all up to debate wether a guild that lost all its core players still should be listed as a guild that still has everything on farm which is why i have not corrected this "issue". So the guild progress displayed on the website should only be more seen as a "farm status".
Furthermore do note that RaidStats is not yet confirmed to work 100% on Nostalrius. There is always stuffs that differ between private servers and because of my goal to make different runs be comparable(for highscores etc) there are some strict requirements of events during the fight to make sure no one is getting an edge because of irrelevant things such as lag/dcs. This may in worst case also cause some boss kills not to register correctly before i create a fix for it. Especially content such as Blackwing Lair, AQ and Naxx may need some work done on my side to work 100%. This means that to be able to 100% accurately track first kills etc it would be a good idea to track that information manually and instead use RaidStats as an additional proof that the claim is valid(since a screenshot can be faked). RaidStats can also be faked, but if anyone does and it is found out about, that person gets their uploading rights revoked immediately and the data purged. So in the end the more sources that exists for a claim the more reliable it is.
Anyways just thought id share a little bit of relevant information about the current flaws and how RealmPlayers and RaidStats works so people do not rely on it 100% and then later get disappointed in the future incase something does not work the way it was assumed to work.
Looking forward to seeing some great competition between guilds on this server