And if instead of the stars, use the real galaga images?
(see attachment)
And like roman numbers, sum with them.
Examples:
If a user have 1 post, he got 1.gif
If a user have 5 post, he got 5.gif
If a user have 7 post, he got 5.gif and two 1.gif
If a user have 150 post, he got 100.gif and 50.gif
If a user have 1277 post, he got 1000.gif, 200.gif, 50.gif, two 10.gif, 5.gif and two 1.gif
etc.
So complicated?
I've seen it long time ago in a ubb board (perl version).
This look amazing and very entertained for the users.
Anyways... is just a suggestion