faq add tag
5 years ago holmanb

It has been mentioned in other Q/A posts that stars increase voting power at a rate of floor(log10(stars)) + 1, and stars are community-specific (i.e. they don’t transfer between communities).

As a user, it would be nice to be able to somehow figure out the number of stars. Perhaps that information could be embedded in the user profile on each community?

Top Answer
5 years ago Skillmon

Currently you can mouse-over any avatar and see how many stars the corresponding user has in a tool tip.

For example, at the time of writing this you have 29 stars in Meta.

Screenshot (cursor not visible):

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5 years
holmanb — Thursday, 16th Jan 2020 21:45

😃 Nice. Sounds like a fun community.

Skillmon replying to holmanb — Thursday, 16th Jan 2020 21:37

Relatable, I just know because we had our fun at the TeX beta hailing to every new point leader (which sometimes changed on a minute-by-minute basis in the early days).

holmanb — Thursday, 16th Jan 2020 21:33

@Skillmon I tried that previously but clearly I was not patient enough to wait 1.5 seconds for the count to appear.

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