[Freddie Bingham]

Here is the code I use for stars on v2. It gives one color stars to admins/super mods and another color for everyone else. If you want to give different stars to regular moderators than you will have to insert the ismoderator() function which is going to increase the queries on showthread. Just rename it to stars.php, put it in your forums/admin directory. Open up functions.php and put

include('stars.php');

after

// sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template

This is a very simple hack but it is all I need for my forum. The next version of vB (the next full version, not beta) will have a more comprehensive stars function. Oh yeah and put $stars in the postbit template where you want the stars.