stars should be standard, karma a hack. why stars are pretty simple and configurable everyone uses them the same way, karma is pretty complicated and is going to have to be different on pretty much most sites. Stars are what we want to start with (or little baby aliens in my case.. they are responsible for the longest (and scariest) thread on my forum!)

How about a stars hack that gives a star for every certain # posts, rather than specifying each nuber. I would like to give a star for every 50 posts.

well then just specify it at 50,100,150,200,250,300,350 etc !!!

Yes, but I dont want to have 50 lines of code specifying each step, seems like it should be easy to have it do it on its own with and just specifying one integer.

Instead of
50, star
100, star star
150, star star star
200, star star star star

do
(totalposts/50)xstar

Seems pretty simple from what I see here, wish I could write it myself.

And if someone had 1000 posts are they going to have 20 stars?

no but in my old board there where 8 stars +

first in silver and then in gold when you have 8 gold stars then it stays there thats enough i think on big boards it is good but when you have an little you can make it smaller

This one gives a star for every 50 posts up to a maximum of 8, edit the variables at the top to change that behavior.

Yes freddie, they would, but your reminded me that they would need to break every 10 or so.

I admit this probably wouldn't work for every one, I have a small board, where I would like to give stars often for the fun of it, plus with breaks there is a lot of room for those little things so 100 stars wouldn't bother the board.

As a joke I give about 100 stars to people temporarily, http://www.thzclan.com/forums/showth...3?threadid=214

No need to debate, just thought it would be easier to specify one number than every step you want a star. :)


*edit Ooops, posted while I posted, thanks Freddie

This one gives a star for every 50 posts and keeps on giving them but inserts <br> after every 10 stars. Again edit the top variables to change the 50/10 settings.

Thanks again, I really apprieciate that you guys can write this stuff. I can only pick out the basics.:)