Here a proposal to a new starring system:

1. I understand that all of the SE devs are in the US and that they're culturally biased to voting being anonymous.
2. Starring is not voting: it's in a chat; it's not voting; it's starring...
3. Change the starring algorithm to anything else then what we've got today. (Really! Anything! It cannot get any worse!)

So far my feature request... :-)

Eliciting answers that contain such algorithms...