# Charter Membership -- Maintain **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 21, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-maintain/1000567 "2024-04-21T01:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-maintain/1000567/11 "2024-04-21T10:07:49Z")
Now that the OP’s been conclusively answered … Semi-related to Charter Member titles, you can now get a title of your own choosing. Which title, like mine, can include you grandfatherly status of Charter Member plus additional witticisms. Or like @ParallelLines just above me here, can simply be your own clever creation showing no memory of your former and now mostly virtual exalted status. They’re becoming commonplace; almost all the cool kids have one now. So join the clique before somebody decides we’re not taking more members. After all, what good is a clique if you let the riff-raff in? 😁 If OP or anyone else is interested, see this thread for the how-to and to make your request for a custom title at no additional cost. > [@Custom Titles Queue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-queue/998955): > > Please enter your current title and what you want the new title to be as a post in this thread. The basic rule for Custom Titles are that they are supposed to be fun, so nothing offensive. You can’t use something that is already a title of some sort in the system (Moderator, Admin, Charter Member, etc). Self-deprecating titles are Ok, but you can’t insult someone else. So I could change my title to “old fat guy” but I couldn’t use “Ned is ugly”. In the past, the staff had to change a couple of… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-maintain/1000567)._