This might be a dumb question, but I've been around for a while and I've never figured out how to get the stars under your name on the forums. Can someone tell me how that works?

You get one for every 750 forum posts you've made

posts or topics? because I feel like I probably have 750 posts just doing events haha

Posts. If you hover over your username, it says you have 613 posts currently

I know that posts in the event forums do count, but I'm not sure if possibly the number drops when the event forums close? iirc the posts themselves get deleted from your post history afterwards. I'm not positive but I feel like I've noticed that with my own posts in the past

ah okay! thanks so much <3