Obviously, i'm not from Chile, but I just took that from Chrono's post.
I think I could get used to that personally. And I fully agree with losing the stars in favour of the flag, it would tell me more about the person. And I should be able to have a rough guess at how long someone has been on the boards based upon how much I have seen them anyway (or their post count). The only trouble is when it comes to new people.... but from previous experience, they rarely listen to the knowledgeable members and just go for the short posts anyway so it wouldn't really matter....