Current Star System Update

[Shadowblazer]

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)

[The Savior]

Spiffy, I like the new way much better.

[Samson007]

Hmmm, I guess its pretty cool, but im gonna miss my plats.

[stormwatcheagle]

YOU TOOK AWAY MY SILVER STAR, YOU BASTARD!

Besides that,it's a nice change. I like how staff has ranking stars. Adds more color. Not to mention, I never really liked those seafoam stars for hosted forum moderators.

[Strider]

Maybe 4 stars should be 5k posts, becuse there are not many 10k+ members.

Other than that, much better.


BTW: GU have also reworked the stars just recently, if im allowed to say that, I should get more active here in AGN, so many new nice hacks.

[Shadowblazer]

Well, the fact that very few regular members will hit 4 stars is intentional. Hosted Forum Mods get 4 stars as well.

Members used to be limited to 3 back in the day. When we instituted the colored stars, we allowed members to get to 4 since hosted forum mods could be distinguished by the cyan stars. Since that's no longer true, I figured it'd be okay if members could reach 4 but only rarely.

Since the stars basically indicate "rank," think of 1-4 as:
1 - Brand new user
2 - Somewhat Active
3 - Very Active
4 - Oh my God when do you have time to sleep?
(or Hosted Forum moderator ;) )

[Cronic]

Nice... Now I no longer fear reaching 10k :)

[J.J. Maxx]

Cool, next stop 4000k!

[Shadowblazer]

Originally posted by J.J. Maxx
Cool, next stop 4000k!

Fine, you get to come up with all the colors in between though!

[Happyman]

Very nice SB...but a notice...The minimalist post bit stars need fixing. ;)