How exactly does the star system work

[penguinman]

How exactly does the star system work?

also why is post counting disabled?
I really wana see the top 15 posters

thanks

[bedges]

stars and number of posts are no longer linked (if they ever were) - read this.

[macguba]

We found that post counting led to people making unneccessary posts.   When it was disabled (when we got a new forum in the Refit of the summer of 02) there was a marked improvement in the quality of the forum - far fewer rubbishy posts.

However, in not displaying post count there is a loss of information.   The star system is an attempt to remedy that with better information.

[penguinman]

oh, Those actualy were 2 completely unrelated, seperate questions. But I guess that awnsers them nicely.

thank you.