Stars???

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(I took off my stars. I shouldnt have been displaying them but turns out my user settings had been set wrong. D'oh)

Thanks Quixi   You're right, reaching 500 posts gets you the chonky stars. I'm just assuming billy intentionally did it that way for meritocracy reasons  

Also re: mods - digging around the backend i found the setting that artificially pegs their # of stars at 5 .... I suppose this was from the time when most volunteer mods didnt have a lot of posts under their belt and 5 stars was considered an upgrade, not a demotion   So should I just get rid of that limit altogether? Or upgrade mods to 10 fat stars?

Mods certainly do deserve marks of distinction.  It seems to me that only *even* numbers of stars are displayed for numbers over four, for line users... making five a suitably odd "gong" for our long-suffering mods.  For those who know, anyway.  (It seemed to me that the five fat stars were a little chubbier than ordinary fat stars, individually.  Could be an optical illusion, though.)

Good observation Duke. Yes the 5 stars are unique to mods, so they do look distinguishing.

On a sentimental note, when billy created this user title system, he'd dubbed someone getting to 250 posts as a "posting freak". Someone getting to 500 posts was even harder to envision, a 10 star worthy pinnacle. And now years later folks are still reaching and exceeding those hopes. Thank you all.