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I have an user title. I did not choose to have an usertitle. I also can't see who thought it funny to give me one.

I want to have no user title but setting custom user title to "" just causes my unwanted user title to reappear.

This is either a bug or harassment.
 
Nope, working as intended. It's called the user title ladder, as pointed out in a recent announcement, a standard feature of Xenforo. The forum software will display certain titles according to your post count, unless you choose a custom title. This was already happening before, it's where the titles of Member, New Member, etc came from.
 
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I have an user title. I did not choose to have an usertitle. I also can't see who thought it funny to give me one.

I want to have no user title but setting custom user title to "" just causes my unwanted user title to reappear.

This is either a bug or harassment.
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Harassment would be setting the standard to "POKED BY ADMIN STAFF" as SB did. As LG said, this isn't QQ doing something, it's just the way XenForo's set up.

It might be nice to have spaces count as a nonstandard title, though (I just tested; the standard comes back if your custom title is spaces only). Don't know whether that's feasible.
 
magic9mushroom said:
Harassment would be setting the standard to "POKED BY ADMIN STAFF" as SB did. As LG said, this isn't QQ doing something, it's just the way XenForo's set up.

It might be nice to have spaces count as a nonstandard title, though (I just tested; the standard comes back if your custom title is spaces only). Don't know whether that's feasible.
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To be fair, WHAT the software sets the titles to is my doing.
 
It's vaguely possible that you could enter an HTML non-breaking space, or one of the Unicode nonstandard space characters, and not have the default title show up. I have not tested this.
 
magic9mushroom said:
Harassment would be setting the standard to "POKED BY ADMIN STAFF" as SB did. As LG said, this isn't QQ doing something, it's just the way XenForo's set up.

It might be nice to have spaces count as a nonstandard title, though (I just tested; the standard comes back if your custom title is spaces only). Don't know whether that's feasible.
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I know that on SB it was (is?) possible for someone else to alter your user title (through payment?) and as the user title wasn't the usual bland "New member", "Member", "Regular" stuff and SB, SV and QQ forums share alot of technical (to me it seems so) capabilities...
 
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I know that on SB it was (is?) possible for someone else to alter your user title (through payment?) and as the user title wasn't the usual bland "New member", "Member", "Regular" stuff and SB, SV and QQ forums share alot of technical (to me it seems so) capabilities...
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Yeah, no. As far as I'm aware this just isn't true. No user can alter somebody else' user title.
 
gibbousmoons said:
Yeah, no. As far as I'm aware this just isn't true. No user can alter somebody else' user title.
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I dimly recall shenanigans involving that but those were before the move to xenforo at least (mebbe earlier even). Or possibly I'm on a entirely wrong track and mixing something awful 'features' (again, from years back) into the mix.
 
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I dimly recall shenanigans involving that but those were before the move to xenforo at least (mebbe earlier even). Or possibly I'm on a entirely wrong track and mixing something awful 'features' (again, from years back) into the mix.
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Admins can change your title, but we can do just about anything to your account if we needed to.
 
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I know that on SB it was (is?) possible for someone else to alter your user title (through payment?) and as the user title wasn't the usual bland "New member", "Member", "Regular" stuff and SB, SV and QQ forums share alot of technical (to me it seems so) capabilities...
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Yeah, no. As far as I'm aware this just isn't true. No user can alter somebody else' user title.
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You're thinking of the wrong forum, if I remember correctly this is/was a feature on the Something Awful forums.
 
So since I'm a noob here, how do you create a custom title for yourself?
 
Piemanlives said:
You're thinking of the wrong forum, if I remember correctly this is/was a feature on the Something Awful forums.
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Reaperman did mess with quite a few people's usernames, avatars, username colours, signatures and IIRC user titles over the years. I remember Biohazard, foamy, and several instances for Lord Iysnic (now known as Lord Squishy, because the username override was never rescinded and after a few years the name stuck). Never through money; more like being one of, or having the ear of, the admins.
 
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Reaperman did mess with quite a few people's usernames, avatars, username colours, signatures and IIRC user titles over the years. I remember Biohazard, foamy, and several instances for Lord Iysnic (now known as Lord Squishy, because the username override was never rescinded and after a few years the name stuck). Never through money; more like being one of, or having the ear of, the admins.
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Which is more of a harmless practical joke than anything else. Now if there was a cost to having it fixed it would be a bit more annoying and promote incredible amounts of dickery among the userbase.
 
Well I was wondering what the fuck is wrong with the system.

Looks like the pervert staffs not beating around the bush. :p
 
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