Missed opportunity to speak of TITLES

[ghostlight]

Ghostlight. It appears that you may have missed my point.

It seems I did.

Whether or not special morale titles are awarded independently of post count (and I really have no stake in that side of the titles issue), I hope the people who helped make X Marks what it is remember that they distinguished themselves through their actions before they held special titles. While funny tag lines under user names might be amusing for the bearers of those titles, the rest of us selfishly get more enjoyment out of the bearer's continued contributions to the community.

I hope I'm reading too much into the fact that this particular issue keeps coming up for discussion. I hope people understand that their past contributions to the community and their place in the on-going community haven't been devalued over different or missing titles.

[auld argonian]

"...and I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have people like me as a member." -Groucho

I don't think that anyone took the titles seriously...it wasn't like rank or anything like that, it was just about the time you put in....though, there were/are people who managed, say, the 2,000 posts that rated them a "kilted legend" designation in a very short time and some who took years to achieve it. Consider that some posters didn't post unless they had something to say and some posters had a lot of "nice kilt" posts that added to the count. Thus, the discriminating participant knew that the number of one's posts had less to do with one's contribution than the quality of one's posts.

Think of it in terms of any martial art (or any of several other disciplines, I suppose)...if all you go into it for is to get a "black belt", then you've missed the point.

It was, however, nice to see who the old duffers were...some of these folks established a lot of "cred" sticking around that long.

Best

AA