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kstuart

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What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« on: January 22, 2013, 01:52:22 pm »
I've searched and can't find any references...

What are the gold stars under one's user name on the Forum, and why do they increase and decrease from time to time ?
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 01:57:25 pm »
Related to the number of posts?
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2013, 02:06:23 pm »
Could be related, but they do decrease, while the number of posts doesn't...
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2013, 03:17:38 pm »
Quote from: kstuart on January 22, 2013, 02:06:23 pm
Could be related, but they do decrease, while the number of posts doesn't...

Really?  I don't think I've ever seen that.

If so, Jim is probably screwing with you.  ;) ;D
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2013, 03:19:21 pm »
SMF (and also YaBB) have a post count based star system, as well as member groups.  There are modification packages to change behavior.  The forum software is built to deal with 5 levels, each based on post count.  Once a user reach a certain post count, the user's level increases.  Stars are related to that.

Here's a screenshot of how this is managed (in a new version of SMF):

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=459505.msg3209450#msg3209450

I haven't admin'd one of these forums in a long time now, so don't have the exact details handy.  I'm not sure if your stars decrease as soon as you jump a level.
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2013, 04:14:31 pm »
On Interact, at least, and every other SMF forum I've used, the stars == the "level".  But it was a long time ago that I was below 5 stars, so I'm not sure.
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2013, 12:51:06 pm »
Aha !  I did see it !

In one thread in the MC18 Forum is:

Dare978Devil
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kstuart
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Note five stars and Posts 62 and four stars and Posts 384.

So, the stars are not proportional to the posts.
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Re: What are the gold stars and why do they go up and down ?I
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2013, 01:01:38 pm »
We have sweethearts.
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