many forums I am on allow users to changed their user titles, so they dont all say "Registered User" or "Contributing Member" and instead can have custom phrases.

Is this something YT can do, or would be interested in doing? Obviously we would be following the same strict guidelines as posting in threads. However, i feel it would better help identify our online persona

Good example is I have recently (and Jokingly) been labeled a stalker, so I would like to change my title from "Contributing Member" to "Resident Stalker"

Thoughts? Ideas? Concerns?

 

good idea, stalker

 

haha gee thanks

 

You could also make it an option for contributing members... We do that on one of the forums that I mod.

 

Im sorta torn on it just being for contributng members....since YT no longer has to have an income (since being sold) less members are becoming contributing members. Its a little *too* elite.

 

Well I'm not gangster enough to know they're being sold. Then yes, I agree change it before it's sold to higher powers. Let the people assign their own title, you'll love mine...

 

mine would probably be 'i want to be buried facedown so everyone can kiss my ass'

 

Agree

 

Too many characters.

 

damnit

 

You mod forums?

 

No weigh in from Mods on this idea? Corey? Bueller? Bueller?

 

It's nice on TTORA. You have to be a contributing member there to have one though. But those titles actually help us staff sometimes because there are certain labels we sometimes need to use. (Like Banned) Which obviously would superceed a user chosen name. But I am not sure how much work needs to be done in VBB to enable this in such a way that it wouldn;t make a lot more work for us mods.

In the mean time, that's what Sig Lines are for.

And If I could "Change" mine... I'd be Chuck Norisette or Legendary PigPen!

 

Just for clarification, when you say we were sold. That's not a bad thing.
It allows for more reliable user access, faster speeds and an overall better environment.

The fact that most people don't even know that is a sign that we're still exactly as we were years ago.

As far as custom titles go...I am torn.
They are neat but can get confusing and out of hand sometimes.

I do think there needs to be some variable in place for when a user can do it.
Maybe not contributing but maybe post count or something.
100 posts, 200 posts I don't know.

As 'Coug said, as with all things here it has to be family-oriented and appropriate.

Fink

 

Id go at least a 1000 posts, im almost there, it will give me some time to think of one!

 

1,000 is a lot.

A lot of members here don't post as much as the rest of us.
See Elton.

Let's see what people think about the idea in general and then we can go from there.

Fink

 

Yea i was just joking around, i don't think i would use one anyways.


Maybe right above the advatar, but under the other stuff

 

thats right where it would go 904_runner. In place of it just saying "registered user" or "contributing member"

 

Oh, wasn't sure you meant to replace those


And there would have to be some limitations, or else anyone could put "Super Moderator" etc..

 

Considering you stalk everything I do, (example bumping this thread after 2 days) I'm surprised you didn't know that already.