[wp-forums] Regarding Custom Titles

[James Huff]

Actually, I kind of like "Theme Diva" . . . for you, of course.

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On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:40 AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:

> on 21/09/2010 09:26 James Huff said the following:
> <snip>
> 
>> Mark also noticed that despite many of us being Administrators, we
>> have set our titles to Moderator.
> 
> You know, I never really notice my title. I think it was set to Moderator by Michael or Sam early on and I never thought about changing it.
> 
> > In fact, at the time Chris was the
>> only one of us brave enough at the time to bear the Administrator
>> title.  This raised the concern that Chris would be sought out more
>> as the only apparent administrator for the crazy requests (delete my
>> account, change my password, etc), and I do agree this is a valid
>> concern.
> 
> Agreed but, in reality, I don't think it does much to stop the crazy requests. Or people adding your username to their topic titles in the hopes of getting attention etc etc etc. All the little hallmarks of those who think their problem needs more attention and now, dammit or they'll stamp their feet.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> and one
>> is currently threatening to sue me if I don't suspend a "Powered by
>> WordPress" site.  I'll pause again while you finish laughing
>> hysterically. :)
> 
> Oh - I wonder if that's the same person who was threatening to sue me last week. At least I remained polite. I even wished him luck.
> 
>> So, figuring that the false moderator shield is not
>> really protecting me, I've switched back to Administrator.  Perhaps
>> the rest of us should consider doing the same?
> 
> In the interests of solidarity, I'm happy to do the same if it helps to spread the load as evenly as humanly possible.
> 
>> Of course, we also have tech ninjas, forum janitors, multisite
>> mavens, and members (miklb, you sneaky person), which raised the next
>> question.  Mark suggested that it would be cool if we all picked
>> custom titles akin to our own unique specialties and then perhaps
>> added our roles (Admins and Mods) to the Support Forum Volunteer
>> Codex page.
> 
> I do rather like the idea of custom titles (can I have Theme Diva?). I do appreciate the point about non-English speakers and, whilst I agree that it's a valid one, I'm not sure that it's actually that significant. Custom titles - even if you don't fully understand the meanings - do still indicate that there are general members and Other People. At the end of the day, do we really need any other distinction in terms of perceived power etc? All most people care about is that someone tries to help them. Doesn't matter who that person is or what their title means.
> 
> The only time any additional distinction might be important is when there is trouble brewing - immediately or potentially. We have bozo flags, delete links and close topic for the more serious incidents. The rest is normally just down to user wrangling and the confidence that we have additional resources to call on if needed - human and software.
> 
> The only slight downside to custom titles would be keeping the Codex page up to date in terms of Admins & Mods.
> 
> Um... I think I've just argued myself right back to the fence on this one.
> 
> Mel
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