What do the gold stars next to the thread title indicate?

[Michael Yadfar]

I hate to ask a dumb question here, but didn't know where else to ask. I noticed that next to some posts, there are sometimes good stars. Most times there are 5, but I've seen less. I didn't see this listed in the symbol key, so I was wondering what this means

[Rich Engelhardt]

Go up to the tool bar up by your name and scroll over to where it says - Rate This Thread.
You can rate it from 0 to 5 stars.
The software will average it out if people rate it different values.

[Jim Rimmer]

Go up to the tool bar up by your name and scroll over to where it says - Rate This Thread.
You can rate it from 0 to 5 stars.
The software will average it out if people rate it different values.

I'm not seeing this. Only thing by my name is NOTIFICATIONS MY PROFILE SETTINGS LOG OUT

[Trevor Howard]

Here it is at the top of the thread, this is in Linear mode