More forum decorum

[willard cottrell]

I see various icons to the left of questions - ie star, circle, arrows etc.  Perhaps these are out of the reader's control but I can't locate information about them and what they are trying to tell us.  My initial forum decorum ended up with a dark star, now it appears white.  Why?

Thanks to you who responded to my original confusion!

Willard

[Base 57]

Black star means you participated in the thread and it has unread content. White star means there is no unread content. A thread you have not participated in that has unread content will have a black dot.