# Special user categories **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245 "2007-08-03T04:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/1 "2007-08-03T04:30:43Z")
Do we now have the ability to customize our user category? Lately, **Boyo Jim** ’s username has been sporting the tag, “Best of the Worst”, rather than Guest, Member, Charter Member, SDSAB, Moderator, Administrator or Perfect Master, which I had thought of as the standards. How do I change mine? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/2 "2007-08-03T04:40:04Z")
That’s just a temporary reward for winning this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Contest. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/3 "2007-08-03T04:58:08Z")
So all you have to do is write the worst opening sentence of the year and you’re all set! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/4 "2007-08-03T07:07:56Z")
At the moment, that’s an exceptional circumstance that we allow in exceptional circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/5 "2007-08-03T07:24:35Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] How do I change mine? [/QUOTE] How much you got? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/6 "2007-08-03T17:37:10Z")
BoyoJim did something special, we celebrate it, we thought he deserved it. We’re open to other situations as they happen. Do something special like this, let us know. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/7 "2007-08-03T17:44:23Z")
Woo hoo! I am _so_ winning the Pulitzer Prize this year! … Does anybody have a link to those guys? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/8 "2007-08-03T18:58:51Z")
I just noticed that, too, and came in here to ask the same thing. Do we have a link to his winning entry? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/9 "2007-08-03T19:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] Do we now have the ability to customize our user category? Lately, **Boyo Jim** ’s username has been sporting the tag, “Best of the Worst”, rather than Guest, Member, Charter Member, SDSAB, Moderator, Administrator or Perfect Master, which I had thought of as the standards. How do I change mine? [/QUOTE] You forgot “B.A.N.N.E.D”, which is the tag all true members aspire to. Many are called but few are chosen… ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/10 "2007-08-03T19:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I just noticed that, too, and came in here to ask the same thing. Do we have a link to his winning entry? [/QUOTE] [Here ya go!](http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2007.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/11 "2007-08-03T23:51:33Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] At the moment, that’s an exceptional circumstance that we allow in exceptional circumstances. [/QUOTE] So there’s no chance of me being relabeled “Village Idiot”? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/12 "2007-08-04T01:22:43Z")
Too much competition. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-user-categories/414245/13 "2007-08-04T02:48:42Z")
Wasn’t Otto “Asshat” for a while? I think somebody got in trouble for that one. Otto if it wasn’t you I am sorry. But I distinctly remember somebody had that title briefly.