[Salamander]

Age based stars are better than post related stars. People who have been here longer have no doubt contributed more than new members, older members have kept this place alive! Everyone always says that quality is better than quantity, so logically, those who have been here longer have probably made more quality posts, it stands to reason. Besides, if you were to rank people on much they've contributed to this forum you would have to know quite a bit about everybody, plus you'd have to do it manually. In short, it's more time consuming.

Also, you hardly have to worry about someone creating an account and then waiting for multiple years, everyone else's stars would increase too. If you think about it, if someone was prepared to wait several years just to obtain some stars, wouldn't they just do the same if we used the post-based stars? Yes, they probably would. Age-based stars is better.