If you don't want to risk me being a dick

Originally Posted by Mindless

You're also going to possibly have new people see someone with a high estimated skill (The stars by their names in the boards and in the links to the battles) rating and then see how shit their verses actually are and maybe get turned off the site because of it.

If this is your concern then there is a far bigger issue that would need to be addressed: Ranking. It makes sense that a noob would come to the site and check out whoever is 1# and think they're shit and then draw conclusions. I have no idea how the rank system could be fixed but I think that contributes to how a noob perceives the site far more than the star system.

Originally Posted by Mindless

You're also going to possibly have new people see someone with a high estimated skill (The stars by their names in the boards and in the links to the battles) rating and then see how shit their verses actually are and maybe get turned off the site because of it.

If this is your concern then there is a far bigger issue that would need to be addressed: Ranking. It makes sense that a noob would come to the site and check out whoever is 1# and think they're shit and then draw conclusions. I have no idea how the rank system could be fixed but I think that contributes to how a noob perceives the site far more than the star system.