I just did a small tweak to the application that parses the character information.
Kind of hard to explain but if it gets fed a character that is anonymous (or roleplay) AND it already has a record for that character, it won't update this character's information.
Before this change, one day I could have picked up a guilded 60 druid and if he went anonymous the next day, he would show as an unguilded anonymous in the database. Now he will remain as a 60 guilded druid and ignore the anonymous record.
I did this in hope of reducing the amount of anonymous characters there is in the database. Close to 10% of recorded characters are anonymous. Out of 15k characters, that's a lot !
Edit: For the record, there are 1396 anonymous characters in the database right now. Curious to see if I can get that number to drop in the next few days
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