# Moniker?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 10, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101 "2006-04-10T16:25:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/1 "2006-04-10T16:25:35Z")
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"
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/2 "2006-04-10T16:49:56Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/3 "2006-04-10T16:55:14Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Once you lose Charter Member status it cannot be regained. Sorry.
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> 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. 😃
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/4 "2006-04-10T21:21:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> 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
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.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/5 "2006-04-11T01:26:34Z")
I’d throw my vote behind " Boot-Licking Toady "
😃
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/6 "2006-04-11T01:49:45Z")
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. 😉
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/7 "2006-04-11T04:26:45Z")
I’m partial to “Not him again.”
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/8 "2006-04-11T05:14:48Z")
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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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/9 "2006-04-11T14:37:35Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
I’ve written for a magazine with a database that lists people with expired subscriptions as “shithead.”
QUOTE]
Please tell us which it is, so we don’t make the mistake of ever subscribing in the first place. :mad:
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/10 "2006-04-11T14:51:45Z")
> [@saoirse](#):
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> I’m partial to “Not him again.”
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. 😉
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/11 "2006-04-11T19:41:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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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:
Not a chance. 😉 And it _is_ a joke on their part.
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/12 "2006-04-11T20:40:09Z")
I’m partial to “Ron Jeremy’s understudy” but I don’t know why. 😉
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/13 "2006-04-12T04:38:34Z")
> [@vetbridge](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/14 "2006-04-12T13:07:14Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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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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> I’d love to be able to pick my own epithet on this board. Hope that works out!
Let me guess. Was it _ **Time** _?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/15 "2006-04-12T13:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
> [@Marley23](#):
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> I’ve written for a magazine with a database that lists people with expired subscriptions as “shithead.”
> QUOTE]
>
> Please tell us which it is, so we don’t make the mistake of ever subscribing in the first place. :mad:
It’s ok, they don’t take subscriptions from people who don’t have a sense of humour.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/16 "2006-04-12T13:53:01Z")
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> It’s ok, they don’t take subscriptions from people who don’t have a sense of humour.
Oh, it was Mad Magazine?
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/17 "2006-04-12T14:33:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> Not a chance. 😉 And it _is_ a joke on their part.
No. You see- these things we call “jokes”? They’re _funny._
Besides as you said - you _used_ to work there.
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### Author:  [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/18 "2006-04-13T22:27:33Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> We are looking at possibly changing user titles, letting you select your own, even, but that is not an option at the present time.
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.
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/19 "2006-04-14T03:27:00Z")
> [@norinew](#):
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> 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’d prefer “Village Idiot”
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### Author:  [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moniker/352101/20 "2006-04-14T04:08:55Z")
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’.
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