I often see stars next to some people's names in this forum.
Is this based on number of posts? Or some other factor?
_ck_, for example, has one star... and 4 blank ones.
He is an active an member of the forum. I bring this up because it looks like he's being rated 1/5 stars (that is, badly)... which I don't think is the intended effect of the stars.
Just my 2 cents.