stars by name

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 21 Apr 2008, 23:22

I know this is a non important question, low priority and all

but what are the stars by our name on the right and why are mine all gone? Did I have some? Everyone else does? Not a big deal. At all. Just curious.

Post by **Silurus** » 21 Apr 2008, 23:57

The stars used to indicate your member status according to the number of posts you made. It's probably removed during a forum upgrade.

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 22 Apr 2008, 05:37

oh o.k. thanks.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Apr 2008, 12:33

Silurus wrote:The stars used to indicate your member status according to the number of posts you made. It's probably removed during a forum upgrade.

Right, but other people do have the stars - look at this thread:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =2&t=22757

Andy's post is about 4 down, missing the stars, but the previous and next posts have stars (except for me, but that's because I'm a moderator).

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Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 22 Apr 2008, 12:58

Out of interest , is there a threshold that has to be reached for the number of stars to increase - not that i have star envy or anything!!!

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Apr 2008, 13:03

Richard B wrote:Out of interest , is there a threshold that has to be reached for the number of stars to increase - not that i have star envy or anything!!!

Yes, you'll get another star (and then you're "full up") when you reach 1000.

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Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 22 Apr 2008, 13:14

We-hay!!!

That'll be so cool as i've just got my free pen for 50 donations of blood as well!

Post by **Birger** » 22 Apr 2008, 14:11

Maybe it is because of the" I've donated " probably anyone that has this does not have stars
The other ones that do not have stars are moderators

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Apr 2008, 14:12

Birger wrote:Maybe it is because of the" I've donated " probably anyone that has this does not have stars
The other ones that do not have stars are moderators

I managed to find someone who has donated and stars in the thread I linked above (sorry, can't remember which post it was).

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Mats

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Apr 2008, 17:23

It's a long story. In the previous version of the forum (phpBB2), if you donated, you went onto a special status to show the fact.

In the new forum (phpBB3) you can have both, HOWEVER, anyone donating before the change over doesn't have stars and I should probably fix that.

Mods and admins didn't/don't have stars in either version of the forum.

Jools

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 05 Aug 2011, 15:22

Is this something that needs a fix? (I have no idea what needs to be done to fix this, so hints from Jools needed if I'm going to help out!)

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Martin S · Post by **Martin S** » 05 Aug 2011, 15:45

Does look like it hasn't been fixed - I have donated and have stars, yet the OP has also donated but still doesn't have them. I suppose it depends how much work it is to fix and if anyone who doesn't have the stars wants them!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 07 Aug 2012, 21:49

Just to end this topic. The stars are no more because all they did was crudely show number of posts. Not much of an indicator given all the other data in there that tells you a lot more about the person.

Cheers,

Jools

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