Greetings everyone, I apologize for the newbie question, but I was curious how to get the stars above my avatar, and pet below my avatar in forum posts? Are there prerequisites for said things?

Stars are based on the amount of posts you have in the forums. 1= 750, but I'm not sure after that. As for pet images below the HA on posts, that's the Leash feature! On the Pets page, use the drowpdown on the pet you want to feature, and select 'Leash'.

The Leash feature is only available for users with an active Gold Account by the way.

Thank you so much ^^ I really appreciate this.

I believe the stars were changed to be 1500 posts each, sometime fairly recently (it might even be 1000 posts each I'm not 100% sure since I don't think mine dropped at all when the change happened, but I know some people lost one when it did)

Well, I have less than 1K posts, and earned mine when I hit 750. So now I have no idea. :'D

Sorry, my bad! I did some digging and it's actually 750 posts per star, I'm not sure exactly where I came up with 1500 from haha