Hi,
maybe I'm being stupid, but I've completely failed to find anywhere on the site which gives an explanation of all the different icons/stars/points etc used on this forum. Can you give me a pointer.
Cheers,
Mick.
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mickanomics: Hi, maybe I'm being stupid, but I've completely failed to find anywhere on the site which gives an explanation of all the different icons/stars/points etc used on this forum. Can you give me a pointer. Cheers, Mick.
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The stars are ratings for the post (if it has been rated at all).
The bars under your avatar show your bracket position regarding the forum posters wrt # of posts, e.g. top 100, top 50, etc.
Cheers
Knight_of_BAAWA: The stars are ratings for the post (if it has been rated at all). The bars under your avatar show your bracket position regarding the forum posters wrt # of posts, e.g. top 100, top 50, etc.
Can you remember how you found out this piece of information - surely its all written down somewhere.
All you have to do is mouse over them and you'll see.
I'm new too. What does it mean to "verify" and answer on a discussion forum?
It means that if you indicate in creating the post that you're asking a question for people to answer, people can suggest responses as answers and you can approve the ones you think are actually answers.
How do they get rated and who rates them? The members? The Mods? everybody? I don't see anywhere that I can rate anything, though I use Firefox and maybe it doesn't work for open source browsers, though that would be a shame. Ditto for the points after people's posts. What do they mean and where do they come from?
Each person can rate it. Just mouse over the stars and click however many you want.
The points after people's posts comes from how many replies something gets. I believe each reply is worth 15 points, so 1 reply is 20 points (5 points for the initial post + 15 for the reply).
Knight_of_BAAWA: Each person can rate it. Just mouse over the stars and click however many you want. The points after people's posts comes from how many replies something gets. I believe each reply is worth 15 points, so 1 reply is 20 points (5 points for the initial post + 15 for the reply).
Thanks!
I hadn't noticed those stars before, or if I did I didn't realize what they were for.
What does the gray head and shoulders icon mean? It just recently showed up underneath my avatar, it wasn't there before.
"The market is a process." - Ludwig von Mises, as related by Israel Kirzner. "Capital formation is a beautiful thing" - Chloe732.
I've seen that as a replacement for people's avatars if the page didn't load correctly, and it couldn't get that information, and some others just keep it that way.