What do the stars mean?

[General Atarian]

Under my name the is one star, I see some have as many as 5. what does this mean?

[Lemmi]

you get more stars the more posts you have, when you get 1001 posts you get what i have

[liquid_sky]

The sparkeling stars are for Admins, the Green stars are Moderators.

 

The !!!!!!!!!!!'s are symbolyzing rolling an Activision cart over

[Philflound]

I think you people have too much time to post all those.

Phil

[StanJr]

Yes. I am a sad, lonely man.

[Atari Master]

I have a little over 800 now.I'm getting up there!

[KAZ]

When you reach 10,000 posts, virtual balloons will fall from the top of the screen for about 5 seconds, and you will automatically win an Atari 2600 "Combat" Cartridge, courtesy of everyone who has over 500 posts.

 

To explain this, once you reach the 500 post mark, you are asked politely to "donate" a paypal payment of exactly $.05 (5 cents) to one of the Admin's email accounts. This is by NO means mandatory (of course). A combat cartridge is purchased by one of the Admin from Ebay, provided there is enough "funds".

 

Um, this is strictly insider information (very inside!)