Numbers against profile

[Jackcrwhitney (Jack)]

To add to Dan’s comment

1 is new member
2 is member
3 is regular
4 is hot coral crew

Depending how active etc you are on the forum the badge will update. Each trust level / rank allow slightly different things.
This thread explains it although they recently changed them to 1,2,3,4 to make it clearer to distinguish:

New badges!

In the next few hours you’ll notice a little coloured circle on the bottom right of your profile picture - these are our brand new forum badges! We’ve used badges before on the forum to make different members of the community easier to identify, in particular staff and investors. With so many new faces on the forum, we think it’s time to take this a step further and assign everyone a badge, so that it’s easier for people to work out who they’re talking to! The badges are based on trust levels …