Some people need to calm down a little.. It was a simple suggestion and was unlikely to ever be implemented, there's no need for some of the dramatical and somewhat aggressive replies that have been posted.

Hi peeps

Just my 2 pennies, I like the way the titles are atm, it gives me an idea as to how competant a coder is, or how much experience he/she may have (with regards to here anyway)

Thats all i have to say really lol...

I like this idea a lot.

I didn't say they should be treated as crap. I didn't say they shouldn't be recognized. I found some time to put together a perfectly legitimate and professional suggestions thread and I get flamed? Coming from an "Advanced Coder", nonetheless. What does this say about the community?

There should be another way of recognizing contributors that doesn't divide the entire community into normal members and coders. The awards hack idea sounds like a great idea.

I'm sure I will get blasted for what I'm about to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. One of the biggest problems with this site today is this hugh elitist, high horse attitude eminating from the "coder" community. There are hugh sites using vbulletin that have not been hacked to pieces with mods from here so the notion that vbulletin would "die" if this site went away because of a coder exodus is a mighty bold assumption imho. Visit some of these sites like WHT, Sitepoint, etc. and read the comments in the threads about vb vs some other forum software and the pro's offerered for vb generally never mention the "hugh mod's available rather the strength of the core product itself. I, for one, could give 2 ****'s about the user ranking system here, but I'm also beginning to feel the same way about the coding community. I've learned what I know about vb not by loading up on hacks from here, but experimenting with my own sites, breaking and fixing things and making them the way I want them...all without the help of the "almighty coder" (except for the awesome stuff I've picked up at The Geek's site...which were definately worth paying for) thank you very much. I come here mainly to see what ideas are being kicked around and how the industry is changing, some friendships and so on...not to be embroiled in juvenile spats and testosterone contests.

okay...rant over...let the flaming begin :banana:

I agree with you.
I've never seen the user titles as something to make the coders look "superior" to the others.
It's always given me the information on a coder's experience with vBulletin which might be useful in some cases^^

I don't think they should be removed/changed, I like them the way they are.

Mabe add more coder levels. And if the person is a coder and designer some how make a custom title for those usertitles :)

I agree with Revan, if you want a title (you must or you wouldn't have complained...) then contribute to the site and YOU can be a CODER/DESIGNER HERE. You may be else where but you are not here, face it..... Like it or not it's the truth.

For example, I myself am the s#it on more than on board... but here, I'm a Master Designer... Why, that's what I've contributed so that's my title.... I can code but I haven't here. Are their members benefiting from my codes? NO

If someone is both a coder (any level) and a designer (any level) then maybe set it so that they get both titles. It makes sense when you see the PM's I get about coding issues although I'm not much of a coder, but they just see the Master bit of my designer title and think I must be able to code php as well.

While Agree with you, this post was based off the fact that DP doesn't think that it's fair he doesn't have a title even though he can code/design.. (granted he did create the style here, cheers to that).

So lets see it, contribute and earn it. Fair enough.