stars

It represents your rating, which is done by other members to your posts. You will gain higher reputation rating by posting and starting quality discussions and good responses to others discussions. This is because other members give you more positive rating against your posts, which increases your reputation rating. For this, the things you need to do is post and post but with quality posts. Cheers and wish you best of luck!

its denotes the mylot reputation. it means how you are perceived by others here in mylot. you will get one when you reach 100 post. it depends on how you are rated in sacle of 100