I have introduced a new Medals System today. It changes nothing for you, except that exceptional contributions to the site in terms of articles, painting advice, generally being a useful member, is rewarded and displayed alongside your mini profile in posts. This means that there are a number of people now with new icons (you might have received a PM today in fact) beside their username, which are just medals to show you've been useful around the forums in some way! If you hover over the image, it shows you what the medal is for.

Some examples are:

- 10k+ Post count
- For writing multiple articles
- For having written a useful blog around the site.

etc.