# Suggestion about ex-members **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 18, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-ex-members/345115 "2006-02-18T20:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-ex-members/345115/1 "2006-02-18T20:10:42Z")
Currently, members who do not renew revert to Guest status. Would it be possible to change that, say to something like ‘Lapsed Member’? It would significantly help with reading older threads, helping to seperate the wheat from the chaff. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-ex-members/345115/2 "2006-02-19T02:28:01Z")
My understanding is that they revert to guest every time the software is updated. Someone would have to go in and change the titles for everyone manually. Which would be a lot of work. TPTB don’t like having custom functions to do things like that because they make updates more labor intensive. Maybe someone who knows what they are talking about can come by and explain it. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-ex-members/345115/3 "2006-02-19T16:05:57Z")
What they said. (And thanks.) TubaDiva