Why?
Valued users are Drobe Launchpad users who actively participate in the running of the portal. Drobe shows its appreciation for this input by automatically assigning stars to the user to depict their valued input. These activities range from:

• Comment moderation - Users who participate in the moderation of other users comments and correctly moderate them according to their relevance to the article.
• Useful comments - Users who comment on articles, and whose comments are moderated up by the moderators.
• News submissions - Snippets, useful information, feature writing from users to Drobe launchpad.

What do the stars mean?
Drobe automatically decides which users are valued users and assigns them the following ratings:

• Blue stars - Users who are providing constant, useful input to drobe.
• Gold stars - Users who are providing a large amount of high quality input to drobe.
• Exclamation mark - Users who moderate badly or behave badly.