How are Stars assigned?

ScaredtoQuit · 01-19-2007, 03:09 PM

How are stars assigned to each user? I know it has something to do with how often you post. But what are the cut-offs to go from one level to the next?

BigMoneyJim · 01-19-2007, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ScaredtoQuit

How are stars assigned to each user? I know it has something to do with how often you post. But what are the cut-offs to go from one level to the next?

Um, didn't you just ask this? Since this is the Forum Admin area, I'll quote part of my original response:

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Originally Posted by BigMoneyJim

For most people, the stars and dryer sheet remarks are directly based on the number of posts they've made. Moderators currently have 5 green stars and admins have 5 red stars. Occasionally individuals are singled out for mockingspecial treatment. At the moment I think only brewer12345 has a special "star" count: one large birthday cake for posting the 100,000th post.

The current count breakpoints are as follows: 0, 10, 25, 50, 500, 1000, 5000. After 500 posts the dryer sheet references give way to remarks about posting a lot.

To further clarify, it's total post count that gets you stars. You start with one star and the title "Confused about dryer sheets" and progress to more stars at the post counts listed in the quote.

You went from one to two stars at 10 posts and will get your third star at 25 posts.

wabmester · 01-19-2007, 05:22 PM

I would like to sell some of my stars. 3% commission goes to the selling agent.

Since some people confuse these stars for some sort of quality or seniority ranking, maybe we could replace them with something more representative of the true meaning.

LeatherneckPA · 01-19-2007, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by wab

.....maybe we could replace them with something more representative of the true meaning.....

How about tiny little rolls of toilet paper!

BigMoneyJim · 01-19-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by retiredbop

How about tiny little rolls of toilet paper!

Or dryer sheets! Hmmm....

sgeeeee · 01-20-2007, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by BigMoneyJim

Or dryer sheets! Hmmm....

Dryer sheets are useful. I suggest that anyone with over 2000 posts have all their stars stripped and they should be banned immediately.

Nords · 01-20-2007, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by sgeeeee

Dryer sheets are useful. I suggest that anyone with over 2000 posts have all their stars stripped and they should be banned immediately.

Perhaps some posters should have their stars replaced with hand grenades...

HFWR · 01-21-2007, 06:40 AM

Or turds... :P

cute fuzzy bunny · 01-22-2007, 11:47 AM

Hand grenades made out of turds...hmmm...

brewer12345 · 01-22-2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Cute Fuzzy Bunny

Hand grenades made out of turds...hmmm...

M-80 stuck in a pile of dog doo gets you there with a lot less expense. Just make sure that sucker has a looong fuse (don't ask).

Leonidas · 01-22-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by brewer12345

M-80 stuck in a pile of dog doo gets you there with a lot less expense. Just make sure that sucker has a looong fuse (don't ask).

Not much here gets me to laugh out loud, but that did!

When that sort of thing happens what does one say, Aw Sh*t?

brewer12345 · 01-22-2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Leonidas

Not much here gets me to laugh out loud, but that did!

When that sort of thing happens what does one say, Aw Sh*t?

Luckily, I was only an observer, standing safely out of the blast radius. Watched my fried light it, turn around, and get a step and a half away. Ughhh, what a mess. He had a good time explaining that one to his parents, too.

sgeeeee · 01-22-2007, 05:48 PM

Someone should start a poll to choose alternative icons . . . and the posters who should get them. That should keep the modulators busy. And this post may earn me the first dog poo firecracker icon.

LeatherneckPA · 01-22-2007, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sgeeeee

Someone should start a poll to choose alternative icons . . . and the posters who should get them. That should keep the modulators busy. And this post may earn me the first dog poo firecracker icon.

Nope, you'd have to actually post the poll, like I just did.

C'mon sgeeeee, a little faith. If you can dream it you can do it!

ScaredtoQuit · 01-23-2007, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by BigMoneyJim

Um, didn't you just ask this? Since this is the Forum Admin area, I'll quote part of my original response:

Sorry about the duplication. You know what happens as we get older....

01-19-2007, 03:09 PM	#1
ScaredtoQuit Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 140	How are Stars assigned? How are stars assigned to each user? I know it has something to do with how often you post. But what are the cut-offs to go from one level to the next?

01-19-2007, 05:22 PM	#3
wabmester Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 4,461	Re: How are Stars assigned? I would like to sell some of my stars. 3% commission goes to the selling agent. Since some people confuse these stars for some sort of quality or seniority ranking, maybe we could replace them with something more representative of the true meaning.

01-21-2007, 06:40 AM	#8
HFWR Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: May 2005 Location: DFW Posts: 5,107	Re: How are Stars assigned? Or turds... :P __________________ Have Funds, Will Retire I will now proceed to entangle the entire area...

01-22-2007, 11:47 AM	#9
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,221	Re: How are Stars assigned? Hand grenades made out of turds...hmmm... __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

01-22-2007, 05:48 PM	#13
sgeeeee Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mesa Posts: 3,588	Re: How are Stars assigned? Someone should start a poll to choose alternative icons . . . and the posters who should get them. That should keep the modulators busy. And this post may earn me the first dog poo firecracker icon.

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