New Feature - Coming Soon (added on edit)
People can now see the number of Users(who are most followed or have the most membermarks) that have posted on the board.
So, if you're on a stock board and see "star number star" next to the "Go" button that number indicates how many Users, who fall into the top 50 Followed Members, have posted on that board.
It was a simple feature request for Meatloaf to implement and we thought that Users would find it interesting much like boardmarks, number of posts, etc.
Thanks, Meatloaf!
(For those of you no longer seeing this, it was disabled for a bit while a glitch is worked out hence the "coming soon" added above.)