# How did I get downgraded from Charter Member to Guest?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-get-downgraded-from-charter-member-to-guest/497936 "2009-05-28T15:57:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-get-downgraded-from-charter-member-to-guest/497936/42 "2009-05-30T00:06:11Z")

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Why not just charge a fee for manually changing the titles of those who are willing to pay it? Maybe a one time $25.00 fee to restore a CM title if it has expired? Or perhaps a $100.00 fee would allow for the time and resources needed to rework the database system that is preventing easy restoration of this membership level now. For that matter, why not offer a menu of titles for a price? (“Grand Poobah” for a one time fee of 250.00, or “Unca Cece’s Favorite” for a one time fee of, say, One Billion Dollars). It seems the title, and the title alone, is worth something to many, I think the SDMB is missing a golden revenue stream if typing 2 words into a database under the members name could generate more revenue than the subscription itself.

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