# SDMB titles: Charter Member, Member, Mooch, etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099 "2005-03-31T19:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/1 "2005-03-31T19:34:27Z")
Does this new style for the board come with changes for member titles? Previously, anyone who paid their dues was titled “Charter Member”. How is this working now? Is everyone who paid their dues before the move to pay accounts a “Charter Member”, and those of us who paid afterwards “Members”? Will there be other titles on the board, related to post-count (I’ve seen this on a number of other boards, jsut curious), and I assume non-payers will still be “Guests”. Whats the deal? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/2 "2005-03-31T20:19:06Z")
I certainly hope they don’t create custom titles based upon postcount. I used to be a moderator on a very large messageboard (about twice the size of the SDMB). The quality of posts changed dramatically after titles were “earned” by making a certain number of posts. The place went downhill fast, and the crappy “postcount +1” people crowded out the people who only posted when they had something worth saying. Most of the ‘Old Guard’ folks left, leaving the board to a pack of rude, yammering, arrogant twits. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/3 "2005-03-31T20:33:04Z")
There’ll be a special member title just for those who post things in the wrong forum. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/4 "2005-03-31T20:37:22Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I certainly hope they don’t create custom titles based upon postcount. I used to be a moderator on a very large messageboard (about twice the size of the SDMB). The quality of posts changed dramatically after titles were “earned” by making a certain number of posts. The place went downhill fast, and the crappy “postcount +1” people crowded out the people who only posted when they had something worth saying. Most of the ‘Old Guard’ folks left, leaving the board to a pack of rude, yammering, arrogant twits. Hey, I remember a place like that. I guess it happens everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/5 "2005-03-31T20:42:12Z")
I just posted this same question in ATMB: “[Suddenly, I’m a ‘Member!’](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309611)” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/6 "2005-03-31T20:46:34Z")
Odd. **Futile Gesture** and **Dag Otto** are showing up as Charter Members, but **CynicalGabe** and **pinkfreud** appear to not have any titles at all. What about me? I should be a “SDSAB”. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/7 "2005-03-31T20:51:35Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Odd. **Futile Gesture** and **Dag Otto** are showing up as Charter Members, but **CynicalGabe** and **pinkfreud** appear to not have any titles at all. What about me? I should be a “SDSAB”. I see you as “SDSAB.” I’m still a blank, though. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/8 "2005-03-31T20:52:42Z")
Wow, that was some fast action. Now I see myself as “Member.” I’ve been reMembered! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/9 "2005-03-31T21:14:46Z")
I was showing up as a Member earlier, but now I am blank. In more ways than one. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/10 "2005-03-31T21:17:06Z")
:smack: Now I’m back, apparently, to Member. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/11 "2005-03-31T21:19:48Z")
My “Member” has been removed. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/12 "2005-03-31T21:21:16Z")
Auggh. Titles seem to come and go. Is this some sort of malfunctioning of the chronosynclastic infundibulum? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/13 "2005-03-31T22:00:00Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Auggh. Titles seem to come and go. Is this some sort of malfunctioning of the chronosynclastic infundibulum? Wow. I can’t believe that I actually know what that means! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/14 "2005-03-31T22:04:46Z")
**TubaDiva** provided some answers in [the aforementioned ATMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309611). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Roches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Roches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roches)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/15 "2005-03-31T22:52:03Z")
I too noticed that people with the “Member” title now have no title. The other thread seems to indicate that these titles will come back, and that no new titles will be introduced, which I agree with. Message boards where you earn titles or stars by having a large number of posts always lead to a lot of posts like this: 🆒🆒🆒🆒 LOLLOLOL!!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 * * * [16-line signature] **Disclaimer:** This is the first time I’ve ever used the smilies. This example of a horrible post is for scientific and educational purposes only. Since I tend to post long replies (as some may have noticed =)), I have a lower post count than I’d have if I made that sort of post. Unfortunately, I’ve already earned my high-school diploma and completed adolescence, so no five gold stars for me. Almost as bad is when there’s some referral system where you can rate people’s posts as good (and sometimes bad) using points you earn from making posts yourself. The Sims 2 message board has this, and everyone is preoccupied with ‘bene[ficial post] points’. The quality of posts on that board is orders of magnitude poorer than on SDMB, though there are other reasons for that. (The titles also have joke names like ‘Tongue-Tied Tourist’, which isn’t so funny after you see it 7800 times.) I don’t think there are any titles here besides ‘Guest’, ‘Member’, ‘Charter Member’, ‘SDSAB’, ‘Administrator’, and ‘Banned’. I’ve never seen ‘Mooch’, and I might have missed some. Oh, there’s one more title: ‘Perfect Master’. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/16 "2005-03-31T23:30:43Z")
> [@Roches](#): > > I > 🆒🆒🆒🆒 LOLLOLOL!!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 > > * * * > > [16-line signature] > > **Disclaimer:** This is the first time I’ve ever used the smilies. This example of a horrible post is for scientific and educational purposes only. I have to say that this is one of the **funniest** comments I’ve seen here in six years. Thanks for making me laugh! > [@](#): > > I don’t think there are any titles here besides ‘Guest’, ‘Member’, ‘Charter Member’, ‘SDSAB’, ‘Administrator’, and ‘Banned’. I’ve never seen ‘Mooch’, and I might have missed some. > > Oh, there’s one more title: ‘Perfect Master’. You missed “Moderator.” It’s worth noting that ‘Banned’ comes in two alternatives: ‘Banned’ and ‘BANNED’ – the difference evidently lying in how thoroughly they pissed off the Administrators and Moderators before action was taken. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-titles-charter-member-member-mooch-etc/297099/17 "2005-03-31T23:38:39Z")
I think this is more appropriately handled in the thread in ATMB, ref’d by **Misnomer** : [Suddenly I’m a Member](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309611) Consequently, I’m shutting this one down.