the stars

devilmunchkin · January 23, 2003, 01:42

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

Rasbelin · January 23, 2003, 01:54

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

ixnay · January 23, 2003, 02:51

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.

Asher · January 23, 2003, 02:58

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

Frozzy · January 23, 2003, 03:31

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

Rasbelin · January 23, 2003, 03:33

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.

Rasbelin · January 23, 2003, 03:39

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.

Skanky Burns · January 23, 2003, 03:42

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

Jamski · January 23, 2003, 03:52

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

groan.

-Jam

FrustratedPoet · January 23, 2003, 04:11

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.

DrSpike · January 23, 2003, 06:03

So instead of being stealthy they show up with flashing great big stars by their names.

Well, stars, anyway.

Caesar the Great · January 23, 2003, 17:59

good to know i'm the only one seeing them

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

devilmunchkin · January 23, 2003, 19:42

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.

Tuberski · January 23, 2003, 19:46

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

ACK!

Asher · January 23, 2003, 20:21

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.

Dauphin · January 23, 2003, 21:08

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