23-01-2003 10:42									#1
	the stars Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

what do the stars by some user's names on the opening page of the forum mean?

	23-01-2003 10:54									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

It's the overall rating given to the specific thread by the members that have rated it with the thread rating feature.

	23-01-2003 11:51									#3
	Got spare money?

It's useless in most places on this forum. I remember people saying it has use in specific forums, and I wish the thread ratings were restricted to those forums alone.

	23-01-2003 11:58									#4
	Inflate your Upload Space

Now that we have the Apolyton Directory I don't see what use the thread ratings are?

	23-01-2003 12:31									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Actually, I think you have misread DM's post...

On the front page, where it says "active users", some members have asterisks at the end of their names.

I too wish to know what this means

	23-01-2003 12:33									#6
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Well, it's simply just a standard feature of vBulletin which could be turned off at any time for those forums that don't need it, but I assume it's in use in all forums as some people use it in all forums they visit and/or post.

	23-01-2003 12:39									#7
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Frozzy,

actually you seem to be right. Someone asked this question several months ago here, so the answer could be found if one has the patience to browse through the posts (I can't come up with any good search criterias). I don't remember what the explanation was, but I assume it could be banned users or ones waiting to confirm their e-mail addresses. I don't have any other explanation.

	23-01-2003 12:42									#8
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Could someone post a screenie of the names with stars near them? I can't seem to find any.

	23-01-2003 12:52									#9
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Me neither. Perhaps someone's "seeing stars" or "has stars in their eyes" or maybe they're "STARting to go blind"

groan.

-Jam

	23-01-2003 13:11									#10
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

The users with stars by their names are the people who have chosen to remain on hidden or stealth mode for the forums.

Sometime they show up in the list of active users. It's happened before. Obviously whatever was causing them to be there has been fixed.

	23-01-2003 15:03									#11
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So instead of being stealthy they show up with flashing great big stars by their names.

Well, stars, anyway.

	24-01-2003 02:59									#12
	Put an end to popups!

good to know i'm the only one seeing them

for a second i thought i was going crazy... too late

	24-01-2003 04:42									#13
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

couldn't have been banned people cause asher had a star by his name last night....asher...do you usually like to bein invisible mode? in fact...after the list of regular names, the list started over alphabetically with asher and others following who had stars by their names. wait..it couldn't be those in invisible mode because I"M ALWAYS invisible and i wasn't up there.

	24-01-2003 04:46									#14
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

I asked this question a couple of month's ago and never got a straight answer.

ACK!

	24-01-2003 05:21									#15
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

quote: Originally posted by devilmunchkin couldn't have been banned people cause asher had a star by his name last night....asher...do you usually like to bein invisible mode?

Yes.

	24-01-2003 06:08									#16
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike So instead of being stealthy they show up with flashing great big stars by their names.

Helps Ming track down Horsie's DLs