Once subscriptions expire, the users’ monikers then say “Guest”. I think it should say “Deadbeat”. On a related note, can I get my moniker changed to “Charter Member”? Like it used to be. Before I let my, uh, subscription lapse. For a year. I’m sorry. Pretty please?
I asked Tuba about this last year, and she mumbled “We’ll see” (or something to that effect) and wandered off.
Disclaimer: I’m just kidding about the “Deadbeat” thing"
Once you lose Charter Member status it cannot be regained. Sorry.
We are looking at possibly changing user titles, letting you select your own, even, but that is not an option at the present time.
TubaDiva
If you use the “Deadbeat” thing, I expect royalties. 
Would it be wide open or a drop down list of Titles?
If a drop down list, please include a few for humor. I’m thinking Geek or Nerd might be popular.
I’d throw my vote behind " Boot-Licking Toady "
I think I’d want my title to be something like “blob of witless stupidity” so y’all wouldn’t set your expectations for me too high. 
I’m partial to “Not him again.”
I’ve written for a magazine with a database that lists people with expired subscriptions as “shithead.”
I’d love to be able to pick my own epithet on this board. Hope that works out!
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I’ve written for a magazine with a database that lists people with expired subscriptions as “shithead.”
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Please tell us which it is, so we don’t make the mistake of ever subscribing in the first place. :mad:
If you ever get to pick your own title, do me a favor and make a dictionary-type instruction for pronouncing your name. It always 
me! I’m aware it may be a literary reference I’m not getting or something, but one of these days I’m gonna start a thread on Dopers whose names I don’t know how to pronounce! Yours would be right up there.
Not a chance. And it is a joke on their part.
I’m partial to “Ron Jeremy’s understudy” but I don’t know why.
This takes me back - I used to co-manage a tiny board where we settled on “Fluffer” for the general member title. Those were the days.
Let me guess. Was it Time?
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It’s ok, they don’t take subscriptions from people who don’t have a sense of humour.
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
Oh, it was Mad Magazine?
No. You see- these things we call “jokes”? They’re funny.
Besides as you said - you used to work there.
Why not? vBulletin supports it. I remember a few people managed to change their titles briefly after a software upgrade a while back.
What this board really needs is the ability to change other members’ titles.
I’d prefer “Village Idiot”
I think if a thread is a month or more old and is resurected there can be times when you’ll not recognize the user name of a ‘Guest’ which could mean a newbie(I hate that word). I was figuring for new comers instead of ‘guest’ maybe ‘times ticking’ and for expired memberships maybe ‘times up’.