The only way I see this star system working is having two seperate rows of stars, one for posts, one for years, that way, we have a new system, we have the old one in tact, and people can ignore the new row if they don't like it.
And yes, I was basically just rehashing what I've said so it makes a bit more sense.
So what I mean is that you'll see the regular oddworld stars for posts, then under it you'll have the years with a different type of star
or you could have you oddworld stars for posts in the regular purple, and the amount of years you've spent on the forums would be shown with say green oddworld stars, that would go over the purple stars.
So say it looks like you have 3 purple stars and 2 green ones, but you actually have 5 purple stars.
Ok, now I'm confusing myself.
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