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Unwanted user title

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by Redacted, Feb 10, 2017.

  1. Redacted

    Redacted No

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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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  2. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    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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    Oh wonderful.
     
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  4. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    You could be more entertaining with it, you know? Like 'Title of Protest' or something.
     
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  5. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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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.
     
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  6. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    To be fair, WHAT the software sets the titles to is my doing.
     
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  7. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    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.
     
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  8. Redacted

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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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  9. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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    Were they changed recently? I know I just got "new member" when I was new.
     
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  10. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    They were changed shortly before I made the announcement post.
     
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  11. gibbousmoons

    gibbousmoons Well worn.

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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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  12. Redacted

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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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  13. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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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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  14. Piemanlives

    Piemanlives The Very Personfication of Immortal Baked Goods

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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.
     
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  15. XDivider

    XDivider A.k.a. HamonMasterDracula

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    So since I'm a noob here, how do you create a custom title for yourself?
     
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  16. Nuit

    Nuit L'immortale Capo

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    XDivider A.k.a. HamonMasterDracula

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  18. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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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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  19. Piemanlives

    Piemanlives The Very Personfication of Immortal Baked Goods

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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.
     
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  20. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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    "I won't fix it, ever" ≡ "The price for fixing it is infinite".
     
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  21. TriGayatri

    TriGayatri Lewd Imouto

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    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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