Ed Zotti
The Shoes of the Fisherman
TubaDiva
Silken Glove, Iron Fist, Brass Tuba
Lynn Bodoni
Cecil Bows To Her
( Might I just take this moment to comment on how completely lovely that ensemble is today, Lynn? 
)
Cartooniverse
Tempus Fugit
General Ideas
Uuber Member
Charter Member
Fan Of Slug ( the forgotten element in the rare ore known as SDMB )
Educable
Will Post Threads For Food
Two of Millions 
Cartooniverse
General:
Teeming Millionth
Rank and File
One of Us! One of Us!
Friend o’ Cecil (or Friend of Cecil, even)
Specific:
TubaDiva
Supreme Goddess
Jerry the Tech God (I forget his actual username)
Tech God
Ed Zotti
Not Cecil. Honest.
Moping Dopers (BBQ Pit)
Defenders of the Dope/Dope Defenders
Doper Than We Wanna Be
Hooked
The Good Stuff
The Dope Army
Cecil’s Soldiers
Cec’s Kids
Dopeful
Pit Master (Lynn Bodoni )
Diva of the Dope (Lynn Bodoni )
His TMIness (Spoose )
My money went to Chicago, and all I got was this lousy banner.
I’d like to go on record here as opining that I think it’s going to turn out to be a really bad idea to have one set of unique titles for all those fortunate enough to have gotten in on the ground floor of this one-time-only introductory offer of $4.95 subscription rates. I’m going to feel ashamed of myself forever after–seriously–if there’s any kind of differentiation in the future between my (hardly) exalted so-called “charter member” status and that of the mere plebes who either didn’t happen to be onboard before April 22, 2004, or who didn’t get the credit card limbered up in time, but who did eventually subscribe.
I’m not talking about differentiating between those who have paid, period, and “guests” who are exercising their 30-days-free option. I’m talking about differentiating between those who will have paid before April 22, 2004, and those who will have paid after that date.
Also, there are inevitably going to be a number of SDMB regulars who are going to be “left behind” in this, due to being off the boards during this crucial month, because of illness or job changes or whatever, and it’s going to be bad enough for them to come back and find out that they’ll have to fork over $15 for what the rest of us were lucky enough to get for $5, without also having to endure the annoyance of seeing that all the rest of us–who just happened to be here in time to sign up for $4.95–get to put special member titles under our names, and they don’t.
The thing I’m objecting to–and I think a number of other people would join me in this–is not the designation “charter” member–not just the word “charter”–so much as the simple indication that there’s a difference between two segments of the SDMB, and, one segment of which couldn’t do much about it, being either not registered yet, or simply unfortunately not around when it all went down.
If, when I registered here in the spring of 2000 I had seen that all those who were members of the old AOL board (denoted by their March 1999 registration dates) had had “Original Doper” instead of “Member” under their names, I’d have been subtly put off by the suggestion of elitism, and I probably wouldn’t have hung around, feeling that no matter what I did, I’d never be able to fit in, or be able to catch up to all the “insiders”, all the “Original Dopers”, who were Original Dopers solely by virtue of them having been involved with the Cecil Adams and his Straight Dope column before I was.
I don’t have any particular suggestions other than either “Member” or “Subscriber” for everyone in general who has paid, and then possibly (if the software will accommodate it) allow those who have paid to compose their own custom member titles if they don’t like “Member” or “Subscriber”, within the bounds of reasonable good taste, to be determined by Lynn or Tuba. This is what the JREF boards do–when you join the JREF Foundation, you get the title “JREF Kid” on the message board, and if you don’t like that, you can make up your own title.
Take your choice: SERIOUS POSTER or WISEASS.
When I’ve tried to be serious in a post, someone is either demanding a cite, correcting my spelling or grammar, or trying to dazzle me with words that I think they made up. Now, WISEASS that I am anyway, that’s what I want under my name. This way, if you see me coming, and you have a tendency to use the word ‘piffle’ in a sentence (that really happened to me) you can just breeze on by that particular thread and go search for a rocket surgeon thread.
(I will pay up soon, I swear on my stack of all five Straight Dope books…)
For those of us who were around to see the OP:
"GOTCHA YA!-ers"
Under my name I want a quote from my wife:
“$4.95 for Chicago Reader? Is that Porn?”
People who joined before Jan 2000:
Old Timers
General:
Evil Resident
For me:
Furry Guy for the Cute Girl
Threadkiller
“1920’s Style Death” Ray
For General subscribers I also like “Cecilian”
I’m with Duck Duck Goose on the “Charter Member” thing. I want either “Member” or “Subscriber” under my name, unless someone calls me something so creatively funny that I have to adopt it.
Or unless I decide to call myself:
Blatherskite
Badinagineer
Old Enough To Know Better
Uncheck Sig Before Posting
Esprix The Gay Guy
Eve The Golden Child
Scylla Blimpophobe
Opal Hi, back at ya!
Zev Steinhardt Such a mensch!
Attreyu Hunter Of The Purple Buffalo
Chronos Timekeeper
Tubaduva Send Chocolate
Gaudere (her name broken into syllables and spelled phonetically)
Ianzin The Astounding!
Following up on Truth Seeker’s suggestions:
Banned “Charter Members”: Wasted $14.95
and
Guests: This Space Available
or
Guests: Trial Doper
Banned Guest: Will Remain Ignorant
Members with less than 100 posts: Newbie Doper
Members between 100 and 999 posts: Apprentice Doper
Members between 1,000 and 4,999 posts: Dope Fiend (with full credit to lulu)
Members between 5,000 and 9,999 posts: Dope Master
Members with 10,000 or more posts: Selected by admins after a three day thread in IMHO taking recommendations from the teeming millions.
Oh, and one more that seems to fit -
elucidator: cunning linguist
The Unbanned
Shodan
Straight Doper
Esprix
Gay Doper
Polycarp
Great Doper
any Storm Front Member
Hate Doper
Scylla
Okey Doper
Regards,
Shodan
I’ve got to agree with Duck Duck Goose I’d like this to be a general option thing for ALL members to partake of, not an elite, ‘I joined early so I’m special!’ kinda thing.
I find it more irksome to consider the ability to change sub-title depending on the level acheived through post count (as proposed somewhere up …there). That only promotes spam posting with lame comments like, ‘yeah, me too’ and ‘oh?’, etc (there’s a collectors board that operates for Singapore’s geek community that suffers from this exact problem and it makes the boards pretty unreadable simply because that signal to noise ratio is so appalling!).
But basically I dislike this because I’ve been around here for quite a while, but don’t post very often (I spend most of my day on the boards, but only contribute when I have something to say, like now) so to be labeled ‘newbie’ because of a low post count would be kinda …unfair. sob
I’m just whinging. Ignore me
Anyhoo… my suggestions:
Third post on any thread: um… no. Too obvious… (but still mildly amusing).
Dangergene: boy without fear!
or…
Dangergene: whinging antipodean
oh, even better!
[b[Dangergene[/]: not related to Dangermom
Humblest charter member
And for guests
Not Quite As Humble as a charter member
one more time for the dummies! (me)
[b[Dangergene[b/]: not related to Dangermom
I like The Unbanned. Makes me giggle.
I’d like Blathers On to be my title.
Hmmm.
Hamster Fodder
Must Have Dope
Ignorance Slayer
Join the Dark Side
< Cecil
I’m SMRT!
Dr Fidelius
Old Fart