Our star system has been in place for nearly two years, and I've recently come to the conclusion that it's entirely counter-intuitive. As the lunatic responsible for its creation, I'm wondering what exactly I was smoking when I came up with it. With that in mind, I've made some changes to the way it works, and hopefully the whole thing will make a bit more sense now.
First off, the number of stars that a person has will still reflect their position on the staff. 1-4 for Regular Members, 5 for Moderators, 6 for Senior Moderators, 7 for Administrators and 8 for Owner. However, instead of a regular member's stars fluctuating between 1 and 4 as their post count increases, it'll simply move from 1 to 4 as their count goes up.
Star color, on the other hand, gets a bit of an overhaul. Star color will change as post count goes up for all members, even staff. Since you can determine a staff member's position from the number of stars they have (not to mention the actual title that appears beneath their name 😉 ), it doesn't make much sense to also have them stay the same boring old green all the time.
Number of Stars:
1: Member (1-99 posts)
2: Member (100 - 999 posts)
3: Member (1000 - 9999 posts)
4: Member (10000+ posts)
4: Hosted Forum Moderator
5: Moderator
6: Senior Moderator
7: Administrator/Developer
8: Owner
Yes, I know that 10k members and Hosted Forum mods both get 4 stars. There are so few (read: 1) 10k members though that I figured it's an acceptable compromise, otherwise we either have to keep regular members to 3 stars, or bump all the latter ranks up another one and 9 stars for the owner is a bit much 😉
Color of Stars:
: 0 posts
: 50 posts
: 100 posts
: 200 posts
: 500 posts
: 1000 posts
: 2000 posts
: 4000 posts
: 6000 posts
: 8000 posts
: 10000+ posts
Additionally (you mean there's more?!?), stars will now come in decidedly non-star shapes depending on the amount of time their wearer has been registered.
First Year
Second Year Third Year
Fourth Year
Fifth Year
Sixth Year
BTW, the titles are staying the same. Since I unstuck War Lord's old post in favor of this one, here's the info again:
Title Values
Newcomer (Minimum Posts: 0)
Initiate (Minimum Posts: 50)
Apprentice (Minimum Posts: 100)
Rookie (Minimum Posts: 200)
Junior Member (Minimum Posts: 300)
Member (Minimum Posts: 400)
Senior Member (Minimum Posts: 500)
Veteran (Minimum Posts: 600)
Seasoned Veteran (Minimum Posts: 800)
Forum Regular (Minimum Posts: 1000)
Forum Addict (Minimum Posts: 1400)
Posting Maniac (Minimum Posts: 1800)
Noble (Minimum Posts: 2000)
Elder (Minimum Posts: 3000)
Sage (Minimum Posts: 4000)
Ancient (Minimum Posts: 5000)
Immortal (Minimum Posts: 6000)
Postwraith (Minimum Posts: 7000)
Damned (Minimum Posts: 8000)
Forsaken (Minimum Posts: 9000)
Lifeless (Minimum Posts: 10000)
First Year
Second Year
Third Year