OldMiner's Journal: Asterisks everywhere

Just in case I'm not the only one who needed to know why asterisks were appearing everywhere next to people's name in the comments: They mark who is a subscriber. It'd be nice to, I dunno, have a real gold star instead of a random asterisk which no one cared to send us all a little message about. Probably already a feature request at the CVS. If not, maybe someone should add it? Maybe me. Anyhow, it appears that the asterisk is determined by the current subscription status of the poster, so if you subscribe now all of your old posts will be asterisked...ed.

As stated at http://cvs.slashcode.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/slash/themes/slashcode/templates/dispComment;misc;light:

Revision 1.18 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Tue Apr 22 20:03:09 2003 UTC (4 days, 7 hours ago) by jamie
CVS Tags: useperl, T_2_3_0_89
Changes since 1.17: +2 -1 lines
Diff to previous 1.17
Added comments.subscriber_bonus, the asterisk after subscriber posters'
UIDs in comment headers (aka the "Gold Star").

Someone is going to have to point out that Fark marks their subscribers with a large yellow banner featuring a gold star and the words "Total Fark". Just like how people had to point out to George Lucas that there was this really popular Messiah tale told long before he made "The Phantom Menace".

EDIT 28 April 2003
Might help if that CVS feature request link actually worked.