Stars

[RujiK]

I was just wondering here, what are those stars under your profile, what the signify, and how do you get them? I did a search for this and all I could get was sky addons and what not.

[dmakatra]

The stars are YaBB SE's post counters. The more stars, the more posts. OFPEC has disabled post counting though.

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[macguba]

5 stars = mod in that forum
1 star = everybody else

[Dubieman]

To stop spamming mainly. Though ppl will still do that. ;D

[dmakatra]

To stop spamming mainly. Though ppl will still do that. ;D

Who spams?

What? WHAT?!

 

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[scooter24]

Hey!
I think we should bring it back! You've got to be pretty damn sad to go to extreme methods (spamming) to get a little star under your name! Then again, people out there are sad enough to do that!  :-\
Scooter24.

[Homefry31464]

It makes people more likely to spam, one thing that OFPEC has really been void of for some time now.

[Artak]

You've got to be pretty d**n sad.

The world is full of sad people.  


To avoid spamming for post count and to have every member equally precious, were the reasons for disabling this feature in the first place. I personally see no reason to bring it back.

[scooter24]

Hey Artak!
I do agree with it. It's a shame really considering it is quite an amusing aspect of the message board yet people abuse it . Stupid sad people  !
Scooter24.

[RujiK]

Oooh... I still think you should be able to get stars however  just by counting posts seems lame, could you do something to count the number of scripts you've uploaded or something? This would encourage people to "Spam up some scripts" and that, would be some good spam.

[scooter24]

Hey Rujik!
Nice idea but I doubt it would work . It would probibally result in people uploading stuff we've seen before such as eject scrips. This would just result in spam but in a different form :-\. The last thing this editing site needs is having the Editors Depot clogged up the same scripts !
     I suppose we could have people reviewing/checking the guide . But as we can see from the Missions Depot more missions are being made than reviewed. I'd probibally be the same story !
Scooter24.

[bedges]

well, one system which might work would be some sort of rating system, along the lines of "How helpful did you find this post?" and already seen in the pending missions depot. that way, the stars signify something more positive than simply number of posts, spam or otherwise.

[dmakatra]

What's with the stars? Why do we want to include a elitistic (is there such a word?) system on this beautiful forum? No stars! It is working now and it'll continue to work.

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[greg147]

How about having a star system based on how many topics you've started?

So, people start an honest, needed topic, they get a point towards another star. If they spam post a topic, they get a warning then banned.  

[MachoMan]

lol, that would mean someone would have to check if every topic is really really needed, let's face it 90% aren't! This really would take too much time.