This seems to work but everyone seems to be getting 5 stars in the messaging system. When I am reading a PM from someone, everyone has 5 stars under their name regardless of join date. Any suggestions? Thank in advance.

It's because the Plugin Code I supplied above is being used under 'postbit_display_start', which means the code is only being executed in the postbits.

You could try creating another hook with the same code using a location such as 'global_start' or 'private_showpm_start'.

1st thanks for the post bit info, that worked like a charm :D

But neither of the above worked for fixing the PM's showing all stars available :(

If you want something simple, you could just wrap the IF Condition Blocks with one larger condition like:

If you still want the awards to show in Private Messages; it's possible that the problem is in the "jointime" variable -- $this->post['joindate'] -- $this->post should be corrected for use with Private Messages.

Ok above worked to atleast remove the stars from PM's, would rather none show then all lol ~ so thank you :D

Not sure if above will work or not, as I may just not know what to change it to
I tried $this->pm & $this->private as a plugin under "private_showpm_start" & no change - still showed all stars available in PM's.

Yeah, that's why I figured I'd mention it to you - if you wanted to give it a try; as I don't know the right var. to use.

Maybe someone else will post the answer then :)

Again, thank you so much with your help on this :D

With this plugin add, it works on 3.6.11. Thanks