Hi I am just wondering what the red star with a number inside means.

That is your rating that you have received from other users. It means that they have rated you positives in your responses to discussions. I have a 9 too, but I haven't always had it. I started with a 3 and then a 4 and when I started a disussion it started going up and went up fast. I had the 4 star so long that I thought I would always have it. I am happy though that users have though enough of my responses to give me good ratings. There are some that will rate negative no matter what, hut I really don't worry about them as they are the ones violating the rules by giving negatives just because they don't agree with someone. That is not to be done, but yet people do it, but don't worry about it to much as you are doing fine, and keep up the good work. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.