Member Titles

[blacknight]

At present the member titles are as follows:

Frontpage User
Coder
Wannabe Geek
Hardcore Geek

Any suggestions are welcome

[richardo]

You are confusing me with all these new thingies.

First of all you give me a pimple saying I'm on a distinguished road.

Then you stick up a weighing scales so that I can "add to a reputation"

What are these all about?

Now you are giving us titles?

You can call me "Sir", "Your holiness" or "M'lud" but not "Ma'am".

Anyway I already have a title - "member" [very distinguished!]

You could always change mine to "Moderator"

[Cormac]

you can change that yourself, noober!

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Frontpage User is a bit harsh..maybe noober or noob or noobie or something noob related might be more fitting?

[richardo]

1. In nappies
2. In shorts
3. In jeans
4. On crutches
5. Zimmerframe

[Jaybus, this Grandad thing is getting to me. I'll have to stop]

[EdenWeb]

What about some for Creatives and Marketing folks?
Pixel pushers and all that...

[richardo]

Just keep it generic.

1. Janitor
2. Coffee maker
3. Junior exec
4. Senior Exec
5. Boss's floozie
6. Boss

[kae]

1. Clippy
2. Something scraped from the sole of my shoe
3. Tux
4. PFY
5. BOFH
6. root

[404 username not found]

I resent the assertion that I use frontpage.
(I use Notepad++, it is most certainly for teh win.)

I think any connection between post-count and skill-level is misleading and/or degrading.
I'd suggest a grade from "New user" to "Part of the furniture".
Give credit where it's due and not accolades for spamming.

[gary.b]

Hmm.. it would be nice to have a combo box of options for those titles. So people can say what they do without saying it sort of.

Stuff like "Code Monkey" for coders, "Spamming Link whore" for black hat SEOs (sorry.. couldn't resist urge - do we have any here?), "DNS Valet" for domaining people etc.

Maybe have this description thingy as an option in the signup form. I think vBulletin has this? not sure though.

I think any connection between post-count and skill-level is misleading and/or degrading.

Yes - that's true. I really like the idea of anonymous posting for that reason. There was an interesting blog post on anonymous forums and communities on 4[the most unlikely place to find useful information]chan - but that's down, and i don't have the url to search webarchive so no linkage.

[niall]

Originally Posted by 404 username not found

(I use Notepad++, it is most certainly for teh win.)

VIM for teh win!!!

Now I'll head back under my rock