Unintuitive Character Selection for Forum Posting

To be able to post in your forum (after logging in), you have to select your character. After stumbling around for 10 minutes, using another browser also, I finally figured out the ONLY WAY YOU CAN SELECT A CHARACTER IS TO TOUCH THE STAR AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE CHARACTER PICTURE. This absolutely idiotic and not at all easy to find/figure (to me, the star was a part of the picture, not a selection option). You need to get rid of the star and have a button to the right of the character so you can "select the character and save selection" in one single easy to realize/accomplish move.