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Heroes Community > Turban Tribunal > Thread: Red and Yellow Star Guide (started by regnus_khan in March 2004)

Red and Yellow Star Guide

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regnus_khan

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posted March 14, 2004 07:05 PM

Edited By: regnus_khan on 28 Nov 2004

Red and Yellow Star Guide

I took to mind the idea of creating your own opinions about the red and yellow stars and make an article about them. As y’all maybe know, I spent quite a while here in HC (three months and five/six days) and I know loads of things about it.

Mostly, we all concentrate in creating several posts, discussing in on-topic discussions or just playing word games. This is the proper way to yellow stars. Several flaws, several plusses - that’s what they’re like. Now, I listed some facts and FAQ about them:

What is and how do I get a yellow star?
Yellow star flaws
Yellow star plusses
Other
Personal opinion
Suggestions

What is and how do I get a yellow star?

Yellow star is to represent the primary rank of the member that is only achieved by posting in HC forums and creating threads. Each little star under your avatar shows how many +/- posts the member has made. In order to achieve more yellow stars, you have to post. The table of yellow stars is below:

0-20 posts - no stars: Tavern Dweller
21-50 posts - one yellow star: Hired Hero
51-120 posts - two yellow stars: Adventuring Hero
121-300 posts - three yellow stars: Known Hero
301-800 posts - four yellow stars: Famous Hero
801-2000 posts - five yellow stars: Supreme Hero
2001-5000 posts - six yellow stars: Legendary Hero
5001-??? - seven yellow stars: Undefeatable Hero
???+ - eight yellow stars: ???

Yellow star flaws

The only flaw I can write about is independence from the post’s quality. As I mentioned above, you can only achieve yellow stars by posting and creating threads. Though, this rank is independent from the quality of the post. You can make one letter post and you receive a mark of it in your rank. Mostly, members achieve this rank by posting in word-games (Wastelands) and discussing in on-topic, funny discussions (Tavern). Only few members achieve this rank by posting everywhere and posting long and QP deserving posts. This is the flaw that should be noted here in HC.

Also, not a flaw, but an unfortunate thing is only six ranks to achieve. That isn’t surely a flaw, but it could be more interesting if we could achieve more ranks. Then, some ranks should lower the number to achieve, while other ones should be heightened or newly created. Still, this thing is almost impossible, so it is meaningless to continue discussion about it.

Yellow star plusses

Although these yellow stars have only one flaw, they have NO plusses. These stars do not make this board unique either specific, only the rank names are different from the others. Though, the yellow stars could get a plus if they were easier (or harder) to get.

Forgot to mention earlier that he Yellow Stars allow you to select a custom Avatar when you have two of them (51 posts).

Other FAQ

Usually the people aren’t bound to yellow stars as some are bound to red stars and QPs. Though, the immense amount of short posts in only few threads (Wastelands) can bind the members, so they wouldn’t matter at the quality of posts and do not get free from flood-protect so easily.

Personal Opinion

My opinion is more or less fully listed above this section. Yes, I do think it is a good idea to make such thing and I like it quite a lot. Though, I think there are too few ranks. There should be at least 10 ranks, counting from 1st post to 5000th. Also, I should say that I’m not yellow-star-addicted, so it means I have no problem with them. Only problem is having the same amount of stars (which is too hard for me).

Suggestions

Here, I’ll post my names of yellow stars only. Red stars will be listed at the bottom of the post.

0-10 posts - no yellow stars: Tavern Dweller
11-30 posts - one yellow star: Mercenary Hero
31-60 posts - two yellow stars: Hired Hero
61-100 posts - three yellow stars: Adventuring Hero
101-180 posts - four yellow stars: Known Hero
181-300 posts - five yellow stars: Well-known Hero
301-500 posts - six yellow stars: Famous Hero
501-1000 posts - seven yellow stars: Honored Hero
1001-2000 posts - eight yellow stars: Elite Hero
2001-5000 posts - nine yellow stars: Supreme Hero
5001+ posts - ten yellow stars: Legendary Hero

That’s all about the yellow stars. Now, I’ll discuss the main thing I wanted to - red stars, QPs.

The secondary thing we concentrate into, but which is many times better and necessary, is red stars that consist of our very best QPs, else known as quality points. Many plusses, alike many minuses there are ahead and I think I must tell about them. Here are the contents:

What is and how do I get a quality point? Red star?
Red star and quality point flaws
Red star and quality point plusses
Other
Personal opinion
Suggestions

What is and how do I get a quality point? Red star?

Red star is got when collected a number of QPs, while they’re collected by posting extremely good quality posts. They’re hard to get, though, I have five of them. Each QP is needed if you want to get new rank and new bonuses with them. The table about red stars is below:

-8+ quality points - no red stars: Disgraceful
-3 - -7 quality points - one red star: Bad-mannered
-2 - +2 quality points - two red stars: no rank
+3 - +7 quality points - three red stars: Promising
+8 - +14 quality points - four red stars: Responsible
+15 - +25 quality points - five red stars: Honorable
+26+ quality points - six red stars: Admirable

Unlike the yellow stars, red ones have the following bonuses:

Three Red Stars: no flood-protect when editing
Four Red Stars: no flood-protect at all
Five Red Stars: allows to rate threads

Also one thing to mention is that having a negative QP count increases your flood protect for each additional -1 QP you have. At -12 QP you will never be able to post again. At -8 QP you have a flood-protect of about 40 minutes.

That's a plus because it stops flamers and other *rude* members to post unnecessary posts.

Red star and quality point flaws

Red stars have only little, pointless flaws. I can write them in a row:
- Red stars may turn people into QP-obsessed
- Red stars may affect their minds

I think you all know the main flaws, because they were enlisted in other threads quite time ago.

Red star and quality point plusses

Red stars have quite a lot of plusses. First of all, it makes this board unique and specific. It makes us create quality posts, so we do not SPAM and do not break Code of Conduct. Second thing is that we all can achieve some bonuses and remove flood-protect which annoys us very much. Third and the last one, is that we can get -QPs for breaking CoC and violating in HC. The other bonuses were already enlisted in other threads quite time ago

Other FAQ

The one darn thing about these QPs / Red Stars is that people can become obsessed. They become nervous and may lose their mind. They dedicate their life here, just to chat in HC and do not matter what’s happening in the real world. They become jealous of other people and may annoy them with that, so they’d receive -QP and become nervous. This would happen again and again. But mostly, people become obsessed just because they want to get rid of flood-protect.

Unfortunately, I cannot make the stats I’ve made about all the forums and the percentage of posts. I joined HC not long ago, so I don’t know who and why and when got their QPs.

Personal Opinions

I already explained what my opinions are. I do like QPs, but I’m not obsessed with them. Surely, I can’t deny that I want to get rid of this flood-protect. I think they’re unique and cool etc. but I explained this already.

Suggestions

In continuation to yellow star system, I post QP system:

-10+ quality points - no red stars: Banned
-6 - -9 quality points - one red star: Disgraceful
-3 - -5 quality points - two red stars: Bad-mannered
-2 - +1 quality points - three red stars: no rank
+2 - +4 quality points - four red stars: Promising
+5 - +7 quality points - five red stars: Responsible
+8 - +11 quality points - six red stars: Blissful
+11 - +15 quality points - seven red stars: Reputable
+16 - +22 quality points - eight red stars: Generous
+23 - +30 quality points - nine red stars: Admirable
+30+ quality points - ten red stars: Enlightened

I think that’s all in here. Feel free to read and discuss. May this help or interest ya.

EDIT: I edited some of the stuff by using Djive's stuff. This post may not deserve QP, but it should be marked "important" at least.

EDIT: I added some things and odded some others.

EDIT:

I saw a question (down below):

"Why is the post count lower than it should be if you have a certain amount of stars?"

It happens because the post count drops sometimes (when the thread or the post gets deleted). However, most of the time, the yellow star count is not reduced (dunno, if it is a bug).

In this case it can happen if the total post count is higher than the one you have to reach in order to achieve a star even if the post count shows different.

Also it can happen, that the person who posted the post got a post count minus (posted too many posts in a row).

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