May 2010 Weddings
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What do the star ratings at the top of posts do? Anything?
What's with the "points"... do they reflect your star ratings?
The Nest, you are a strange, foreign land... 
Re: Enlighten me...
I wonder if they're like those blue balls (ha!) that they used to have on the knot, where you pretty much had to have a million posts before you got one.
yeah, the squares under your name require about a million posts before you get one. the points increase as you post, but i'm pretty sure they serve no purpose. the ratings (5 star or whatever) at the top of posts are how other people have rated your post. if you mouse-over them, it will tell you the average rating based on however many people rated the post.
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