# Why do some people have cool descriptions under their name? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453 "2002-03-11T03:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/21 "2002-03-11T22:41:40Z")
So does this mean that in possibly a few days you’ll reopen the feature? Or is it forever? I’m just curious. Oh yeah, if we get the feature later, I call “Killer Mexican Butterfly.” Heheheheh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/22 "2002-03-11T23:59:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\* > Everything you ask is possible, if desired by the SDMB. \*\* Really? Can the SDMB create a thread so large it can’t move it? ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sota_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/23 "2002-03-12T00:13:20Z")
There’s a lot of option on this newer version of vBulletin that SDMB will not allow us to use. I participate in another message board run by vB, and the options rock. More smilies, the ability to choose your title by your name, etc. But a large portion of the reason the SDMB won’t allow them is the age old story of a few losers ruining it for the rest. And it’s too hard for the admins to impose a fair method for determining who can and can’t use the cool stuff, therefore, no one gets to. Plain and simple. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/24 "2002-03-12T00:31:27Z")
Ok, this seems as good a place as any to turn myself in. As with **Kyla** , **Frannie** , **Green Bean** , **Some Guy** , _et al_, I had no inkling that changing my title was some kind of no-no. And, of course, I can’t change it back myself. So here I am. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/25 "2002-03-12T00:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Okay, now I’m tweaked… Torque is tweaked? Next thing you’ll tell me will be Twiggy is twee. Or Tweety is Twenty. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/26 "2002-03-12T01:04:35Z")
**Ringo** , remember that the first rule of holes is to stop shoveling. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/27 "2002-03-12T01:28:17Z")
[Chief Wiggum] No, no! Dig **up** , stupid! [/Chief Wiggum] ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/28 "2002-03-12T02:07:51Z")
Hmmm…, it appears that bureaucratic endeavor _has_ caught up with me, and I’ve finally been transformed from “Digger of Deep Holes” back to the pre-Invasion of the Body Snatchers “Member.” Thanks, mods and/or admins. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/29 "2002-03-12T02:09:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > Bibliophage is a really nice guy. We all are I’m not. I’m a right bastard, and so help me god, if you cross me you will regret the day you were ever born. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/30 "2002-03-12T02:58:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried_ > I’m not. I’m a right bastard, and so help me god, if you cross me you will regret the day you were ever born. :mad: Hmm… Well _I_ like you. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/31 "2002-03-12T03:24:14Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not. I’m a right bastard, and so help me god, if you cross me you will regret the day you were ever born. Ohh, **Arnie** , and we love you for it… ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/32 "2002-03-12T05:06:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\* > > I’m not. I’m a right bastard, and so help me god, if you cross me you will regret the day you were ever born. :mad: \*\* Awwwwww! NOODLES! Aren’t you just so CUTE!!! 😉 😛 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/33 "2002-03-12T06:19:10Z")
Just get them to change your username to something like “engorged” or “turgid” and the description under your name looks a lot cooler, har har. ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/34 "2002-03-12T09:37:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*Just get them to change your username to something like “engorged” or “turgid” and the description under your name looks a lot cooler, har har. \*\* Just, please, don’t use “severed”. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/35 "2002-03-13T01:38:09Z")
Well, vBulletin does have an option where your user title is based on the amount of posts you have had. There’s also the option to allow people to set their own titles after they’ve posted a certain amount of messages. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/36 "2002-03-13T08:22:23Z")
This has hit me especially hard because Kyla, who posted above, had “Max Torque’s Secret Lover” as her user title. (sighs wistfully for what could have been) How about if UncleBeer changes his title to “Max Torque’s Secret Lover”, since that’s practically a synonym for “Moderator” anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/37 "2003-02-23T01:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*So I see now that, after taking our toy away from us, the mods are playing with it themselves! What’s this “Super Moderator” nonsense? And why do YOU get to play with the cool thing but the rest of us don’t, huh? Huh? Huh, ya bullies? Huh? \*\* JFTR, and 11 months etween question and answer has got to be close to a record for this board, but this thread was linked to, and I noticed the question still hanging fire… “Super Moderator” is a specific category with rights under standard vBB software releases – it constitutes a Moderator who has Mod. rights in all forums, not just in the one he or she is specifically assigned as Moderator of. IIRC, all our Mods. are Super Mods. (under this definition; I’ll let you make your own value judgments! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![llydiabeato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@llydiabeato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llydiabeato)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/38 "2003-02-24T21:44:18Z")
I am just reading as a new member to attempt an understanding of what all this is about. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/39 "2003-02-24T23:04:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Super Moderator" is a specific category with rights under standard vBB software releases – it constitutes a Moderator who has Mod. rights in all forums . . . Plus, they can _fly_. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453/40 "2003-02-24T23:08:17Z")
::: waves red kryptonite in **Uncle Beer** ’s direction ::: …sometimes! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-have-cool-descriptions-under-their-name/97453.md?page=3)