It has something to do with prestige, Naomi, BigTex, Iowa.PharmD all have 5 blue squares. They post a lot, but Kiefer has 5 blue squares too and he is under 100 posts.
It comes from having been assigned privileges, not from posting a lot. I could assign moderator privs to a newbie and they'd have 5 squares right away.Posting a lot does result in more squares over time, but you can't get to 5 squares that way.I haven't been paying much attention to the issue of "fair squares" -- there are a LOT of settings I could configure behind the scenes and I just don't feel like it right now. 🙂Color, by the way, indicates group membership. I've been meaning to play around with that a bit more, set different colors for various groups, etc. The yellow squares belong to "normal users" (non moderators, non Admins).