READ THIS FOR INFO ON THE LITTLE STARS, PEOPLE.

[phongn]

My only beef is that when you use the SubSilver theme the yellow stars don't look too good, but otherwise an excellent idea.

You could also use Imperial rank badges

True. Anyone who's got a good-looking 12-pixel high icon with a transparent background can always offer it as a replacement [EDIT: actually, I can assign a different star icon for each theme, so I changed the subSilver star icon to one that should look better on a bright background]

Excellent. These new stars look a lot better with this theme - thank you.

[Nova Andromeda]

And yes, Nova, cases like yours are the reason I added the mod. I thought there should be some kind of merit badge handed out for people who have been around for a long time, even if they haven't posted a ton of stuff.

--I certainly come no where near the 11k posts you've made.
-11k posts ...
-*ponders how much time that equals*
-Are you sure your whole family doesn't use Darth Wong to post?
-You must both think and type fast and have a lot more free time than me ...
-[Homer]Ahhhh ... free time ... [/Homer].
-What is that something like 30 posts a day?!?

[irishmick79]

Call me crazy, but I actually think the stars are kind of annoying. Most of us who post here alot can figure out seniority for themselves, along with the newbies we get who are actually worth a damn. What do you think we have post counts for? This just seems to me like a pointless pissing contest.

[Dalton]

--I certainly come no where near the 11k posts you've made.
-11k posts ...
-*ponders how much time that equals*
-Are you sure your whole family doesn't use Darth Wong to post?
-You must both think and type fast and have a lot more free time than me ...
-[Homer]Ahhhh ... free time ... [/Homer].
-What is that something like 30 posts a day?!?

--Mike averages about 36 posts a day.
-And why do you always post like this?
-You know, with the dash before every new line?

[Beowulf]

Call me crazy

You're crazy!

[Dalton]

Call me crazy, but I actually think the stars are kind of annoying. Most of us who post here alot can figure out seniority for themselves, along with the newbies we get who are actually worth a damn. What do you think we have post counts for? This just seems to me like a pointless pissing contest.

It can't be a pissing contest if the only thing that counts towards getting these stars is time.

[Darth Wong]

Exactly. It's a reminder to the people who join and run up huge postcounts overnight that they should be careful before saying "n00b!" to low-post people who have been around a lot longer than they have.

[irishmick79]

Ok, so I get a little star that says I've been around for a while. Whop de freakin' do. Why bother when, with a glance, you can find the time I joined? It's just redundant. That, and the yellow color clashes horribly with my avatar.

[Dalton]

Ok, so I get a little star that says I've been around for a while. Whop de freakin' do. Why bother when, with a glance, you can find the time I joined? It's just redundant. That, and the yellow color clashes horribly with my avatar.

That doesn't happen in reality. Most people don't look at boring data like that. The stars are an instantly visible reminder.

[neoolong]

1 and 2. Hehe. Shiny things.

[Stravo]

The stars are cute, I certainly don't mind them and Dalton is right there are people here far shorter time than I that have something like three times my post count but I'm a SD.Net First One.

[Nova Andromeda]

--I certainly come no where near the 11k posts you've made.
-11k posts ...
-*ponders how much time that equals*
-Are you sure your whole family doesn't use Darth Wong to post?
-You must both think and type fast and have a lot more free time than me ...
-[Homer]Ahhhh ... free time ... [/Homer].
-What is that something like 30 posts a day?!?

--Mike averages about 36 posts a day.
-And why do you always post like this?
-You know, with the dash before every new line?

--I use them as qusi-paragraph markers. If they are really annoying or something I guess I can find some other way to format. I just feel the need for something to replace indents and some organizational structure that is easy for my eye to pickup (in addition to using them to organize lab notes in pure text files on unix systems). Two dashes, --, means major topic. One dash, -, means minor subtopic / related topic (generally speaking).

[TrailerParkJawa]

Call me crazy, but I actually think the stars are kind of annoying. Most of us who post here alot can figure out seniority for themselves, along with the newbies we get who are actually worth a damn. What do you think we have post counts for? This just seems to me like a pointless pissing contest.

It can't be a pissing contest if the only thing that counts towards getting these stars is time.

I like the stars because they are sign of time and not posts or title. Its just a personal preference but I rather have lots of stars than a custom title.

[Kuja]

Ooooooh, purty.....

*stares drooling at the stars for hours on end*

EDIT: Thanks Mike, you gave me the inspiration for a slight location change.

[Nova Andromeda]

The stars are cute, I certainly don't mind them and Dalton is right there are people here far shorter time than I that have something like three times my post count but I'm a SD.Net First One.

--First one? I don't see you on the first page of the members list...
-I know what you are talking about. I've been here forever, but you would never know from my post count and I probably just barely make enough posts to get above the background noise...
-In fact, I have no idea if what if any reputation I've got here or if I've pissed people off or not. Well I guess I haven't yet pissed Mr. Wong off yet due to not having a "custom title," but besides that...
-It will also give me a reason to pick on my sister if I can convince her to post here...

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Ooh, I have three stars. And Ebert and Roeper gave me two thumbs up! Or at least I think those were thumbs. They could have been middle fingers.

Anyway, I don't mind it, but I have a question: What happens several years from now? I mean, in 5 years, the oldest members will have 20 stars, and that will look awkward.

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

Draw, pardner!

EDIT: Isn't this a bit redundant if you can see the person's reg date anyway?

Ah, but this way, it is highlighted with shiny yellow stars. You have obviously forgotten the cardinal rule that shiny things are better.

[commercial voiceover-man voice]Nine out of ten doctors agree, shiny things are better![/commercial voiceover-man voice]

I wondered where those came from. I thought at first that it was a troll body count, like the way the cowboys in the Old West supposedly put a notch in their gun... and then I realized that if that was it, each of Darth Wong's posts would take up half a page of shiny little stars.

[neoolong]

Ooh, I have three stars. And Ebert and Roeper gave me two thumbs up! Or at least I think those were thumbs. They could have been middle fingers.

Anyway, I don't mind it, but I have a question: What happens several years from now? I mean, in 5 years, the oldest members will have 20 stars, and that will look awkward.

He can use different colors or other symbols to designate longer periods of time.

[Darth Wong]

Ooh, I have three stars. And Ebert and Roeper gave me two thumbs up! Or at least I think those were thumbs. They could have been middle fingers.

Anyway, I don't mind it, but I have a question: What happens several years from now? I mean, in 5 years, the oldest members will have 20 stars, and that will look awkward.

I'll just change the amount of time that one star is equivalent to.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

You may notice little yellow stars under peoples' names. These stars are awarded for length of time on the board (one star for each yearly quarter, ie- 3 month period), not for post counts. It's a mod I just added to the board because I thought it would be neat. Just FYI.

Well, that would certainly explain why I suddenly feel like I've walked into a convention of admirals.

[Kuja]

Anyway, I don't mind it, but I have a question: What happens several years from now? I mean, in 5 years, the oldest members will have 20 stars, and that will look awkward.

He can use different colors or other symbols to designate longer periods of time.

Maybe then we'll start using Imperial insignias.

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

You may notice little yellow stars under peoples' names. These stars are awarded for length of time on the board (one star for each yearly quarter, ie- 3 month period), not for post counts. It's a mod I just added to the board because I thought it would be neat. Just FYI.

Well, that would certainly explain why I suddenly feel like I've walked into a convention of admirals.

Hey, and it adds a nice little extra touch to your avatar, Terwynn.

[Darth Yoshi]

Ooh...stars...Cool.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

You may notice little yellow stars under peoples' names. These stars are awarded for length of time on the board (one star for each yearly quarter, ie- 3 month period), not for post counts. It's a mod I just added to the board because I thought it would be neat. Just FYI.

Well, that would certainly explain why I suddenly feel like I've walked into a convention of admirals.

Hey, and it adds a nice little extra touch to your avatar, Terwynn.

Hmm, I did not notice that before. Thank ya very much!

[Nova Andromeda]

--You know what would be really cool. A total word count statistic! Then we could tell who likes to chat a lot (those people having low words/post) and those who like to go on and on and on about minutia (like me).
-Even cooler would be a useful thought/word statistic We could call it the drivel ratio.