What do the gold stars next to a person's avatar mean?

[Reforged]

My Mum's living room in my case. That's where the internet lives, you see.

lol Sorry but that just brought a brilliant image into my head that made me laugh.

Like a Mothers completely focused on x-factor and shes like
"Boy? Boy? Get me ma cheetos."
Shes greeted with silence.
"Hey boy! You listening to me!?"
She eventually takes the time to walk over and shake her sons shoulder.
"Boy?"
What falls from the chair is a skeleton wearing headphones with its hand firmly attached to its crotch. As the headphones pull out and knock the mouse the screensaver vanishes and a symphony of looped moans from various fetish porn windows erupts from the speakers.
The cause of death is established as death by masturbation. At some point he stopped getting up for food and drink so torn between forums and internet porn was he.
The real tragedy is that now theres nothing to stop the Mother going down a similar path with Coronation Street and Eastenders. She'll turn to an empty chair, realize no-ones there to fetch her subsistence, that she can't even recall the name or face of the person who did, shrug and go back to her state of mental numbness doomed to die fat and bloated in a puddle of her own urine she couldn't be bothered to interrupt Simon Cowell to move out of.

You're welcome for that image.