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Aotearoa39261 Posts
It's not very often we give out forum stars on Team Liquid, in fact I don't remember who was the last person to receive a star. A forum star represents the pinnacle of contribution to the community. Looking through the list of forums stars you'll see names like HonestTea who was one of the greatest community writers and translated more than his body weight of Korean interviews. There are people like Incontrol, who has consistently tried to bring something good to the community be it through uploading replays, hosting events or being on shows like SoTG. While the mouse-over on the star says "quality poster", it should more accurately say "outstanding contributor". You can see the full list of forum stars here.
There are a select few on the list who have fundamentally changed the way we have played, watched and enjoyed Starcraft. Dakota_Fanning has done just that. He joins the likes of MasterofChaos, Yakii, jca and ilovecats aka toptalent as someone who has contributed to the community in a way that has touched almost everyone and made our Starcraft experience significantly better.
We're no stranger to Dakota's work; back in Brood War he developed the BWHF project (Brood War Hack Finder) which would alert you to whether you were playing with a known hacker or not. It was a massive undertaking and some people tried to abuse it which made development difficult. Further, he contributed some plugins to the Chaos launcher as well as helped debug it on occasion.
But what has really set him apart is his tireless dedication to SC2gears. If you don't have this amazing application yet, then you're mad. What Dakota has accomplished with numerous patching and many man hours is a true successor to BWchart/WC3chart by jca. It has so many features, so many uses and keeps getting better every week (seriously, he PMs me around once a week request a thread title change alerting people to the new version!). The project started back in the beta and over a year later it is still being updated with awesome new features. Additionally, I think his OP is a contender for longest OP on TL 
So everyone, please give a round of applause for Dakota_Fanning!
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Such an amazing actress!! Go go Dakota!
OH... wait, what?
J/K Good poster that deserves this recognition.
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Cheers! 
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No one deserves it more. Good job.
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Was only a matter of time. Insane dedication.
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2nd Hungarian with a star! Yay!
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United States22883 Posts
Great work and totally deserves this. 
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Belgium9947 Posts
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Congratulations! No doubt SC2Gears is a valuable asset.
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
Huge congrats. Keep it up mate!
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It's a fantastic program and extreamly helpful. Thank you so much!
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congrats to you
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Germany2762 Posts
congrats sc2gears is a really useful tool toi have, thanks for providing it!
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Congratulations. It speaks volumes that I recognize your name even though I don't play SC2; BWHF was an admirable project.
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Plexa wc3 equivalent is wc3chart
Nonetheless amazing for Dakota_Fanning (can I say DF?).
At first I couldn't use sc2gears since there wasn't any for mac or it was so hard to use but later on you developed a mac version and then I fell in love with you :D
Now I have sc2gears on windows and mac
Truly well deserved star.
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EPT
