Why not treat the stars like "title belts"? CotY winner has the star until next year's winner is chosen. CotM winner has it until next month's is chosen. I imagine it would be easier to keep track of adding/removing them that way since you're just moving one star per month and one star per year (with the exception of collabs like Cybaster/Balthazar or Chazzanova/Quickfist). As for keeping track of those who have won in the past, well, I thought that's what the Hall of Fame was for.

Hmmm... how about this criteria:

All stars are permanent.

CotY: Star remains the same.

CotM: Each month has a specific color similar to birthstones.

Winners of multiple months would get something similar to a CotY star.

Having the star forever is senseless.
The star represents the current CotM winner.

Yes, completely dodge the point and focus on one specific sentence that has no impact on the discussion

Also, your "title belt" suggestion was already there, it's "a month".

You could have said so, considering you seemed to think the opposite the previous time I said the exact same thing.

The star is meant to be whatever we want it to be. If we want the star to be a trophy or just the same as the Contributor star, then that's what it will be.

It should have been fairly obvious that the CotY star wasn't meant to last a month, considering no one even suggested that in the previous topics.