What do the little ribbons on posts means?

[Chazzed Up]

Retarded question but I couldn’t find an answer despite my best efforts to search. It looks like it is related to reaction score on the post but I was curious what the threshold is. Seems to be multiple colors that I assume correspond to score?

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

they are highlights. they are either made manually by the mods or automatic with more than usual stickers.

 

[Tread Miller]

Red means featured on the front page by a mod; for example, this post about the SKG petition reaching 1 million signatures:


Dark blue means a True & Honest fan postmarked a thread and it got approved by a moderator; for example, this informative post about a lolcow's mom:


The remaining color (cyan on the current USA theme as of writing) means it was highlighted automatically via reaction score; for example, this post (as of writing) in a lolcow's thread: