Stars ?

Yes, what mommy says. The number goes indeed from 1 to 10, but if you keep your cursor on the star, you will see the actual rate of your reputation. Which goes from 1 to 100. For example, mine is 83, and yours is deffinetly much better, so you're doing good! Keep up the good work mate!

The colors mean about aas much as the number, it means nothing..See the more postive ratings you get, the higher the number, and the more negative ratings you get, the lower the number..It has caused so much trouble here, I am surprised they still have it..I guess it was meant to show that someone has a good or bad reputation, but instead you get people who rate you negative just to be mean about it. There were some friends that even went as far as asking everyone to rate them negative, because they had such people doing this and wanted to rebell against this feature, hoping mylot would remove it..But that hasn't happened, so I just rate most positive, rarely do I rate negative, but I have, probably about 5-6 times the whole time I have been here, and those were earned, trust me..

It is your mylot rating. It starts at 1 and goes to 10. The number is what counts.

I'd point you to this FAQ http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq11.aspx

The different colour is just to make it easier to notice it. Every star number has a different colour. So it's not depend with the colour but with the number. If you get 10 so you get the highest number. But if you get lower than 10, you can increase it and also you star number can go down with some reason. The star is indicate your reputaion in here

That's how people rate you on your responses and discussions. 10 is the best you can get.