Name the online accomplishment you are most proud of

The official Cyanide and Happiness account on iFunny advertised my profile. 5000 likes! It was also 5 years ago but whatever.

I was briefly the best geared player of my class in WoW, also maintained the guides on the two largest community websites for my spec.

I used to run a pretty successful internet forum. At our peak we had half a million total members, tens of millions of posts, and thousands of concurrent active users.

I originally joined the forum in my early teens, posted and made friends and fooled around, etc. Over the course of years I took on more responsibility and was eventually asked to join the admin team. I learned a lot about how to manage people and projects, lessons that translated well into the offline world.

I made this original flamebait of a venn diagram about Nerds, Geeks, Dorks and Dweebs around a decade ago and I see sometimes popup on social media to this day along with clearly derivative works to "fix" or make fun of it or sometimes it's a complete copy just with cleaner graphics.

My weekend project was featured in Python Weekly's newsletter earlier this year :D

Nice job with the photo sphere - I was taking a friend around that part of london but didn't go to the museum itself because of tourists.

Not the coolest achievement, but I'm pretty proud of obtaining the Plagued Proto Drake in World of Warcraft before it was removed from the game.

For those who didn't play, the Wrath of the Lich King expansion introduced achievements for the game for the first time. Some of these achievements gave in-game rewards such as mounts or other cosmetics. One of the toughest achievements at the time was a meta-achievement "Glory of the Raider" which required you to complete 16 specific raid achievements. In WotLK, there were 10 man and 25-man versions of each raid and a separate Glory of the Raider achievement for each of these. Each awarded a different mount (which were also the fastest mounts in the game at the time) and these mounts were removed from the game upon release of the new raid tier (which itself had a new achievement and mounts associated with it). There was a lot of backlash about the removal of these two mounts, since the content was still quite difficult at the time. Blizzard relented, and for every achievement released thereafter, the reward remained in game even several patches later. This made subsequent achievement mounts much easier to obtain, since you could simply out-gear the raids over time. In a later expansion, they returned these mounts to the game via a feature called the Black Market Auction House which puts up extremely rare items for exorbitant starting bids.

Anyway, this particular achievement means a lot to me even though I don't play anymore. I played on a relatively small server with only about 3 decent raiding guilds on our faction. Our group was probably the 2nd best on the server, but we were the first to defeat hard-mode Sartharion in 10 man (which was a lot harder than the 25 man version at the time due to the decreased flexibility in raid composition) and earn the mount for the achievement.

TL;DR: I was in a server-first group of 10 people to complete what was considered to be the most difficult content at the time in World of Warcraft and receive an exclusive mount that was removed from the game soon after, making it quite rare.

I orchestrated He-Man in r/place lol

I was on the front page of DeviantArt - twice!

I feel I should have accomplished something else online in the subsequent 15ish years, but I apparently haven't!

I was able to manage my social media accounts to the point that I mainly use them as tools rather than a distraction, and was able to get almost all toxic people off of my friends lists with almost no drama. I very rarely take part in any online debates and am able to have more actual conversations. Now, social media is rarely a source of stress in my life.

I met Allison Silverman (producer for Colbert/Conan/Daily Show/Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) at a film festival, and she unsolicitedly tweeted appraisal for my senior thesis.

Her liking my work as mentally overwritten any negative criticism I've ever received from anyone else. It's stupid that that's what it took to give me confidence to keep writing stuff, but it worked.

Wired posted a (small) article about one of my projects on their website when I was 15

I was one of the best players in the world in Facebook's minigolf party. I was pretty sad when they shut it down.

In the video game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Search and destroy game mode on Wasteland: I was alone with the Vector sub machine gun against four on the other team. My teammates had no faith in me. I had to stay in the bunker in the middle of the map (because short range on the gun). SUddenly the entire other team rolled into the bunker and I cleared them out.

Second best: This final granade kill on Sub Base MW2.