# Custom titles now available! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262 "2010-02-16T23:19:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/41 "2010-02-17T05:08:15Z")
It’s a quote 🙂 > **[Advisory\*\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=551515)** > > The persons roaming the nation from Florida to New York, and as far west as Iowa . Armed with nude pictures of grown men, and showing them to business managers and their employees are indeed “PERVERTS”. Don’t be fooled. These perverts may carry a... ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/42 "2010-02-17T05:10:03Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I await the inevitable kerfuffle when someone demands to have “ped0ph!le” as their custom title. Ed sez: > [@](#): > > **We reserve the right to remove or modify titles we deem inappropriate or offensive. Generally when we do so we will leave your ability to change your title intact. However, in cases of extreme or persistent misbehavior, we may suspend or revoke your ability to change your title. In the latter event you forfeit any fee you have paid. We may also issue a warning or suspend or ban you.** ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/43 "2010-02-17T05:10:35Z")
Count me in! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/44 "2010-02-17T05:12:32Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > Avatars suck. However, if the price were right, maybe we could talk. I’m thinking $500 a minute. Count me in. You take Guyanese currency, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/45 "2010-02-17T05:13:54Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > And I’m assuming you can’t buy BANNED or Suspended for yourself? (someone should probably add that to the rules) If you are BANNED then you are BANNED. :dubious: 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/46 "2010-02-17T05:23:39Z")
Wow, I might reup just to have one. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/47 "2010-02-17T05:23:41Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > Hey, how do you know about Free Candy?!?! 😃 > > Do you know where that name came from? Wooooo? Indeed – do you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/48 "2010-02-17T05:31:49Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Indeed – do you? 😉 Do it. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/49 "2010-02-17T06:10:02Z")
I love it when a plan, in this case one that can cause a “newbie” (their term, not mine) to pay to join, comes together. 😃 Sid, spend more time in GD or other places I hang out. We need more wiseasses. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/50 "2010-02-17T07:53:16Z")
Welcome, Sidney! Is your last name pronounced like the stadium at Alburn or the river? Fun idea, by the way. I may have to get in on this. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/51 "2010-02-17T08:57:33Z")
> [@xash](#): > > Meaning? I mean that there’s a blank line between the custom title and the word Moderator. It is not there for you Administrators, so I assume it is a goof. I also think it’s a bit of a goof not to allow Charter Members (who are your most loyal customers) to have two lines. There was a big kurfluffle back when we left pay-to-post about how important that extra title is to them. Jerry (or who ever else does the tech) seems to be rather swamped, so I can’t think he’d want to come to fix something as trivial as the first part. But the second part, since it might mean less revenue, might warrant a look. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/52 "2010-02-17T09:53:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Maybe they could fix that when the fix the Moderator tag, which seems to add a blank space. FWLIW, I don’t see a white line between the custom title and the Mod title (or the admin or the SDSAB). Chrome on 7. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/53 "2010-02-17T10:25:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I mean that there’s a blank line between the custom title and the word Moderator. It is not there for you Administrators, so I assume it is a goof. It’s intentional. We’re just playing around with two different looks, one with a blank line and one without. Some of us have the one, and some have the other. We’ll eventually all have the same look. > [@](#): > > I also think it’s a bit of a goof not to allow Charter Members (who are your most loyal customers) to have two lines. There was a big kurfluffle back when we left pay-to-post about how important that extra title is to them. This is a valid point, and it was considered, but making it work would require installing a hack. No existing hack meets our needs quite right. The other thing with having two lines is that it can take away from the humor of the custom title. In the case of my custom title it actually adds to the humor, but in most cases it takes away from it. I would have preferred to not display Administrator at all, but that would lead to confusion when moderating. Charter Members are free to switch between their custom title and the title of Charter Member at any time, and as often as they like, for the duration of their custom title subscription. Additionally, they continue to have the advantage of a life-time discounted member subscription, and the knowledge that they will always be, in their heart of hearts, Charter Members 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/54 "2010-02-17T10:41:38Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Wow, I might reup just to have one. Yeah me too. Except, in some meta joke that even I don’t understand, I might make mine “guest”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/55 "2010-02-17T14:37:47Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:54, topic:529262”] Yeah me too. Except, in some meta joke that even I don’t understand, I might make mine “guest”. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid that you cannot change your title to any of the standard titles we already have. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/56 "2010-02-17T14:38:14Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:54, topic:529262”] Yeah me too. Except, in some meta joke that even I don’t understand, I might make mine “guest”. [/QUOTE] How about Gust? Geist? That’s actually kind of funny. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/57 "2010-02-17T15:16:53Z")
Or “Ghost” ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/58 "2010-02-17T15:19:36Z")
Or, if you’re a gigolo: “Chartered Member” ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/59 "2010-02-17T15:21:36Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Or, if you’re a gigolo: “Chartered Member” Or a cartographer: Charted Member" ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-now-available/529262/60 "2010-02-17T15:28:42Z")
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