Why do you star stuff? The most starred topics so far.

JonT shared some links said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 1:33pm ET

The other day I banged a stick against the cage of one of our developers to rouse him from a coding trance and had him pull some information about the forums for me, thanks @harrison!

Here are the topics with the most stars on the forum and the number of stars they have:

So why do you star stuff? What makes something worth the effort of clicking/tapping? How would you feel about having a limited amount of stars to give each day/week?

If you have any other ideas or feedback about the system lemme hear it.

Note: no developers were harmed in the making of this post.

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Thumperchick said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 2:24pm ET:

The biggest reason I star stuff is to highlight it, so that when I'm glancing through the forums, I recognize topics I'm interested in, or participated in.

For comments, it's more like a walk by high five, or the head nod.

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- Good to know!
  
  JonT said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 2:42pm ET
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- @jont - exactly
  
  Thumperchick said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 3:15pm ET
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harrison said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 3:03pm ET:

The stars are right. I have awakened from my programming slumber. Look upon my visage, and despair.

(You're welcome, @jont)

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katylava said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 4:34pm ET:

I star both topics and comments to say "you have provided me something worth spending a modicum of my time on".

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dave said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 4:39pm ET:
Interesting to compare this with the top topics by page view:
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JonT said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 5:07pm ET:
And here the top starred comments (links go to the comment if you want to add to the star count):
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- Yay! I made number 7!!!
  
  Ignorant said Wed, Apr 30th 2014 at 12:28am ET
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dave said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 6:05pm ET:

@JonT I starred that comment just because it'll get insanely meta if it makes it into the top 10 next time.

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barnabee said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 7:22pm ET:

One time I saw stars when I was hit in the head by a baseball. But back on topic, why limit the number of stars given out? This would make me star crossed.

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- Just an idea, don't go all super nova on me!
  
  JonT said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 7:37pm ET
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- Your fault! I didn't planet that way.
  
  barnabee said Mon, Apr 28th 2014 at 7:53pm ET
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- You guys are just revolving around the real issue.
  
  hart said Tue, Apr 29th 2014 at 12:58pm ET
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- Alright, sunshine, do you want us to make you the center of our universe?
  
  barnabee said Tue, Apr 29th 2014 at 1:48pm ET
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capguncowboy said Tue, Apr 29th 2014 at 1:14am ET:

I thought that the stars we earned were going to be paid out in currency.

NO MONEY IS INVOLVED!? F#$! this. I'm out.

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- Each star you earn will be worth 1 Mediocoin, which is worth 0.001 dogecoin.
  
  JonT said Tue, Apr 29th 2014 at 10:16am ET
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ceagee said Tue, Apr 29th 2014 at 6:28am ET:

Clicking on stars breaks up the mediocrity of forums.

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