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[c_raethke]

One point of view: we don't really need another thing to change... you already have your avatar and sig and "From:" to put text and other things that define you in; the text under your avatar would be pretty useless with all these other places. You can also tell if people have been here a long time if they already have a custom title, since they had to have gotten it before the deadline. (I actually applied for one a few weeks before that deadline, but still no custom title :'()

On the other hand: They could use a filter on the user titles to sift out swear words and things like "Moderator" and "Admin", and then let us have control over it. That would pretty much get rid of whatever issues could arise from it, I think.

[quadriseene]

But now the admins stoped. I think that they should add that feature back in, the admins/mods would have more work though, because they would have to "moderate" the custom titles(like if a member had an offensive title, they would either get banned, or get their title changed to something like "No Offensive Titles").

They could always give a few people they trust the ability to change other peoples titles, to take the workload off them, but then again that seems likely to end in everyone having some derogatory below their avatar. However it's not a very important element of the user info. You have a signature, an avatar and a username (however the username is pretty much set in stone, I still haven't been able to get mine changed, and i've tried many times the past few years) you also have a few other things such as location and interests. This isn't a social networking website, you don't need to be able to customize everything. Next thing you'll be asking to customize the background colour of your posts.

It only takes a click of "view all posts by this member" to read everything a particular member has written and therefore get a feel for what kind and quality of member they are.

Unfortunately, since something was changed with the search engine this never works for me anymore. It throws a "flood control message" at me no matter what, but only when searches are restricted to usernames. Keyword searches work, topic or posts by a user do not. Anyone experiencing the same, or has one of the admins customized the search engine to make my life more difficult? :3 (I used to use that search option quite often to find old topics that I know the author of that I wanted to reread) -- Nevermind, it's something to do with Chrome. I guess I'll browse the GMC in another browser for now.

Fortunately, I don't care if you're an expert on something, or if you once acted a complete idiot and ruined your reputation, or if you have thousands of posts on the GMC, or if you have a title that claims that you are the most experienced user on the GMC, or if you have one of those silly little signatures that gives you a star rating in some unofficial and irrelevant quiz, or... you get the idea. I care about what you write in the topics I read -- the content of your posts. And generally, most of you guys have some very good things to say (with an occasional sprinkling of idiot. I do that time to time, though, so I don't hate anyone for it). That's why I still read this forum (and on occasion contribute).

Edited by quadriseene, 08 September 2009 - 06:39 AM.

[makerofthegames]

They could always give a few people they trust the ability to change other peoples titles

Then they would get overwhelmed and quit doing it too, wouldn't they? I mean the actual admin staff thought it was too much work, yet the thousands of posts they have to preview a week is strangely not.

I guess there are just way more moderators than admins?

But with others, it just means they have too much free time to spend on the GMC.

*looks at post count*...
*looks at what was put in "interests" place on profile*...

I need a life.

[commander of games]

But with others, it just means they have too much free time to spend on the GMC.

Whats wrong with that!? If you are for example not married, you still have a life. Exactly the same with having lots of posts on the GMC.

[makerofthegames]

Hey, don't say that. By society's standards I'm still a dumb kid without a job.

[D1g1talAli3n]

I just heard that IP.Board 3 has a reputation system that ranks individual posts.

Edited by D1g1talAli3n, 10 September 2009 - 01:44 AM.

[ramses12]

Well the whole thing is about external rating; people can customise their sig and the from: but there's nothing that they achieve from others. Being a system of making the poster see what's good and wrong in his posts can be a good thing.

[ev149]

Being a system of making the poster see what's good and wrong in his posts can be a good thing.

Unless, of course, people start spamming and down-rating for no reason, or making multiple accounts to rate upwards.

[Recreate]

That would be easy to disallow, Allow only 1 Account per IP
And any duplicates would have to be sent to an admin to be checked(or mod)

[ash47]

That reminds me! I PMed one of the admins / mods, whom ever it was that did those custom user titles, trying to get my own custom user title, as it was the seond last - last day you were allowed to do so, I got told it would be changed, but it was never changed! I'm stuck with the normal rank How sad

[asmodeus]

I sent Chronic a message BEFORE the deadline, the 31st October '08, but I never got a message back and my title was never changed .

And here's the proof!:

[KC LC]

And here's the proof!:

Why did you blot out the title you wanted? If your request had been granted, everyone would be reading it right now.

I guess these custom titles mean a lot to some members. So I'll open up a topic later where members can request titles for some fixed period of time. But only in the topic -- no PMs. (can't afford to have my inbox filled.)

This will allow members to get their custom titles.

[~Dannyboy~]

Why did you blot out the title you wanted? If your request had been granted, everyone would be reading it right now.

I was wondering that myself. If I remember correctly there was a limit of (12?) characters for titles so the the page wasn't stretched. I thought perhaps the title was rejected because it was too long, but there's no way to be sure with it blotted out...

So I'll open up a topic later where members can request titles for some fixed period of time.

Round of applause for KC LC

If you don't want to get too much work, pin the topic then no one will read it

[LarsonCreativity]

If you don't want to get too much work, pin the topic then no one will read it.

Ah, but then she will get a boatload of PMs complaining about the missing topic, you promised me this, you promised me that. It's a lose lose situation.

Either way, I think your doing the right thing KC LC. Though, you could have just as easily stripped everyone else of their custom titles, and then they would have nothing to beg for.

~LC~

[asmodeus]

And here's the proof!:

Why did you blot out the title you wanted? If your request had been granted, everyone would be reading it right now.

Later I didn't like that title anymore ^^. I think I've also sent another PM with another title. The title was "Game Maker Programmer", but that sounds like I would be somebody who programs GM . I don't remember the other title right now.

If I remember correctly there was a limit of (12?) characters for titles [...]

Yes? I didn't know of any limit .

[KC LC]

Later I didn't like that title anymore ^^.

Yet you felt the need to complain here because it wasn't given to you? Seems like you should leave well enough alone.

I think I've also sent another PM with another title.

So Chronic got a 2nd request from you before he had a chance to grant the 1st one? That's probably why he ignored you. That's certainly what I would have done.

[True Valhalla]

Anyways... I applied for a custom title thing a few months before Chronic decided to stop... wonder what happened to it... lol.

So did I. Ended up getting one through a competition he held (when's the next one, Chronic?).

So I'll open up a topic later where members can request titles for some fixed period of time.

Aww, there goes the prestiege

-Tv

Edited by True Valhalla, 03 October 2009 - 03:16 AM.

[asmodeus]

I think I've also sent another PM with another title.

So Chronic got a 2nd request from you before he had a chance to grant the 1st one? That's probably why he ignored you. That's certainly what I would have done.

No. I was waiting and waiting. Days, weeks, I think maybe even months before sending the second PM.

[jalb]

I think I've also sent another PM with another title.

So Chronic got a 2nd request from you before he had a chance to grant the 1st one? That's probably why he ignored you. That's certainly what I would have done.

No. I was waiting and waiting. Days, weeks, I think maybe even months before sending the second PM.

If it was months after, it would of been after the deadline, no?

I've never requested a user title. Though both PM's I sent to Chronic, I never got a response. The second one was after the member title deadline, but it was regarding my username, not a title. Couple months with no response and I PM'ed KC LC, she took care of it for me.