# How do you become a member?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-become-a-member/999251>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 23, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-become-a-member/999251 "2024-03-23T15:53:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-become-a-member/999251/5 "2024-03-23T16:31:28Z")

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This is the thread for title changes:

> [@Custom Titles Queue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-titles-queue/998955/):
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> 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…

But I will process your request and move it to the [completed thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completed-title-changes-thread-mar-2024/998987).

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