[trigatch4]

Paul,

Regarding the need for additional star levels... I think I have a solution. Perhaps everything should be on a "scale". For example, suppose you were to rank all users by how many "rep" points they have.

Those in the bottom 25% (with the lowest rep) would get 0 stars. 25-50 would get bronze, 50-75 would get silver and 75-100 would get gold.

Within those levels, the higher up you were, the more stars you'd have. So if you were like the 49th percentile than you would have a row of maybe 8 bronze stars whereas someone with 26 percentile would only have 1 bronze star.

This way, there is a CEILING of reputation. The top user with the MOST rep will have all gold stars and a "scale" will be built around them... with them being the 100th percentile.

There are a bunch of ways to handle this but I just wanted to share this concept with you. Because, anyone who has a forum with some age will eventually have a ton of people with tons of stars and the novelty will kind of "wear off" - or could at least.

This way, you have an ever changing dynamic system for displaying rep that will never get old regardless of how many rep points any one person achieves. I had thought about installing your mod but I know I will run into the same problem as everyone else... and then if you fix it you have to explain to all your members why their hard earned stars have disappeared!

Also, I'd love to see screen shots in your first post. Other than that really... job well done. I'm just offering some ideas and in no way intend to criticize as I think you've done a beautiful job!