The Death of Post Counts

AHHH! How come I have stars above my acctivity?

Basicly, people thought that posting should have an immediate effect on the activity bar, which it does not for a number of good reasons, and were infuriated that their attempts to spam it up were unsuccessful, so I added the stars to show immediately what the effect will be. The reason they show up on the posts is because that is where the activity bar is, and most people are too lazy to go somewhere else to find this info.

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Also, it's interesting, the psychological effect this has on myself, the creator of this system...before I couldn't care less about my post count, but with the easily achievable goal of just 4 meaningful posts per day, I find myself posting more...of course doing the news stuff may also have something to do with that.