Jon, The stars and corresponding standard user titles are all defaults of the forum software. I won't put the exact figures but stars come up purely on hitting certain amounts of posts, it doesn't matter whether it's a thread or reply, if you've posted more than a certain number of times you get the star.
1 star for 0 posts going up at milestones to a max of 5 for 'Registered Users'. (you've topped out Jon!)
Admin automatically have 7 stars so they can be identified even with a custom user title, again this is a forum default setting.
I do hope with this outlined the number of stars shouldn't cause anyone any stress, and hopefully encourages joining in?
1 star for 0 posts going up at milestones to a max of 5 for 'Registered Users'. (you've topped out Jon!)
Admin automatically have 7 stars so they can be identified even with a custom user title, again this is a forum default setting.
I do hope with this outlined the number of stars shouldn't cause anyone any stress, and hopefully encourages joining in?