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Custom Title

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:02 pm
by Bunny
Would it be possible to make it so that we can choose our own custom title? You know, instead of "registered user?"

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:10 pm
by shooraijin
I think this has been discussed before, but IMHO it would be awfully easy for someone less ethical to pretend to be an administrator that way. (And I don't think the admin staff wants to be in the business of approving every title change ...)

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:24 pm
by Rashiir
They still couldn't change their color...and if anyone gives themselves an inappropriate title, it could be enforced just like if they made an inappropriate comment.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:50 pm
by Rashiir
Shouldn't servant be at the top?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:19 pm
by firestorm
Rashiir wrote:Shouldn't servant be at the top?


I agree it should be at the top, but then again we are all servants of God. hmm......

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:35 am
by Ashley
*smiles with secret admin knowledge*

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:17 pm
by Link Antilles
Ashley wrote:*smiles with secret admin knowledge*


Is that a good thing? :)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:32 pm
by uc pseudonym
Take it as though will.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:42 pm
by DuelShocker3
I hope it's a good thing, cause it's a great idea. :)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:34 pm
by Spiritsword
Yeah, I like the idea as well. Hope it becomes reality.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:17 pm
by Rashiir
Me three. BTW...How cool is Ashley? I mean, isn't she the best?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:02 pm
by Ashley
:lol: *cough suck up cough* Bonus points for trying though.
And I'm not telling you whether it's a good thing or not...I'll leave it at this: the other admins and I have been debating on this topic since the new boards opened.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:19 am
by Mithrandir
Huh. That much debating usually means no action has taken place yet. Hmm... What do I think of this...

I'll take, "Staying out of discussions" for 1200, Alex.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 9:19 am
by uc pseudonym
Actually, I'm in support of something, for no real reason. It just feels wierd for almost every single person to have "Registered User." The words feel a bit useless if they apply to almost everyone. Or I'd support taking out all titles but the moderators/admin. Whatever.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:10 am
by Mithrandir
That's not a bad idea. If you only allow the mods etc to have words in their titles, you would also save between 15 and 150 bytes AT LEAST per page.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:18 am
by shooraijin
On my C64, that would be a lot.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:20 am
by Mithrandir
You aren't posting from the C64 are you?!?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:37 am
by shooraijin
Not yet (the browser doesn't support cookies or all types of form controls ... yet).

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 8:28 pm
by Gypsy
Yeah, we're hashing it out in the "back room." But everyone will know soon enough either way, k?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:04 pm
by majanthehun
*patiently waits for desicion*

im interested to see where this goes.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:03 pm
by Mithrandir
shooraijin wrote:Not yet (the browser doesn't support cookies or all types of form controls ... yet).


You are a disturbed individule. Indeed.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 1:48 pm
by Bunny
Hey hey, what was the decision with this?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:49 am
by MillyFan
LOL, I would like a custom title option (although I'm notoriously uncreative with those, my current user title at CF is "Tee hee. . ." to go along with an avatar of Milly holding the stungun after dropping it) nevertheless, I like the idea.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:58 am
by Mithrandir
Gypsy wrote:Yeah, we're hashing it out in the "back room." But everyone will know soon enough either way, k?


You know, if there's on thing I've learned after running/lurking in boards and BBSs for, let's see... Woah... over a decade, it's this:

"Never go in against a Cecil..." No way, that was something else. I meant to say:

"Moderators + Soon = Star-Trek-Time-Physics"

:sweat:

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:54 am
by Gypsy
*laughs*

No, honest! We really are working on it.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 7:33 am
by LorentzForce
let's give the admins some break. after all, this IS vB 3.0 _beta 5_ version. it's not even full version. but hey, it's close to being full.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:35 am
by Mithrandir
*wispers*

Ask them what version they were using when they STARTED this discussion

:forehead:

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:20 am
by LorentzForce
no, that'll be cruel, probing into the darkest corners of the memories that are best long left forgotten. a technical term for that is mind raping. which isn't nice to do, as the name says.

i think they were using around 2.8, or around there. my memory is vague...

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:15 am
by Rashiir
I don't know if you've thought of this already, but maybe you guys could set a post threshold or something like that for the Custom Title thing so that trolls couldn't use it...

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:38 am
by LorentzForce
i haven't seen the code of this forum, but i doubt it wouldn't be possible.