Originally Posted by
datlas
I also recall seeing a "legend" of this but that was many years ago.
One purple star is mod. Three is admin. The red star is a leftover from many years ago when a single payment got you a lifetime "membership" but now you must pay an annual membership and that gets you the yellow jersey. The eagle is a Sheldon Brown special award to a handful of very righteous recipients.
I think that's correct and I think that covers our bases, but I am sure others can chime in to correct me if not.
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datlas, @
cb400bill - thanks for the info, and for the confirmation of correctness, respectively. My apologies for the delayed reply; I didn't see this until just a few minutes ago.
FWIW: yet another case of "different screens, different shades of color". On my machine, the moderator star certainly looks dark to be a dark blue (royal blue?) vice purple.
Edited to add: my apologies; that should have been "(at)datlass" originally vice "(at)dallas". Must be the aging eyes. (That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!)