Drop the Code/Designer titles
 

I'd like to suggest to drop the coder/designer titles to promote iguality, and allow people to choose their own title. Leave the default title Member, a neutral title.

I think different titles just promote splits.

edit: oh and make the poll a public poll cause I forgot :/

edit2: if the problem is the moderator titles, make them bold or italic etc

I am all for dropping the titles, in most cases. For example, there are a few well-known members around here who are certainly not coders, but because they adapted a few bits of other peoples code from previous versions of vBulletin, and then re-released it they get a "Coder" title? Stick them in a front of a computer, with no documentation and internet, and get them to code me something decent, and they'd be like a fish out of water.

I don't agree with letting people choose their own titles though. Therfore because the poll question is undescriptive, and I don't agree with the whole of your idea, I shan't case my vote :)

Fair enough :P

I just think everyone being a "Member" would be a little dull.

I like it this way.It's a small reward for you.

I'm all for it so add me to the list.

Snake please re-read the thread where I tried to help you but failed.

The only problem for this is that of the Private Coders Discussion. I think it relies on the ranks to allow each member access. If though that was somehow public to anyone who released even one code... then I would agree.

I'm all for dropping the titles for a number of reasons.

1. I don't need any site telling me that I am a designer. I know what i am and am not capable of doing.
2. User titles promotes members to submit (in this case designers and I suppose it can extend to coders) to submit copyrighted material to gain that user title which means absolutely nothing.
3. It's a fast track way of dividing the community. Nobody on here is better than anyone else and alienating members that cannot contribute alienates them. This also promotes sloppy content in the way of hacks/designs submitted into both respected databases because members feel that having such a title means something here when infact it doesn't. High quality content is key.

There's splits by default. It's not as bad as the old days, but the mindset still persists (just ask the vB devs about the priority of converting vBulletin to XHTML Strict, and watch the coder vs designer war begin!). :p

The effort should be the contrary, to unite. Splits by default is one more reason to not encourage it more by adding ranks. And enabling custom titles would let people personalize their accounts, which everyone likes, and give them more freedom, which everyone likes.

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Also custom titles are a question of order. You don't need that much order to run a forum.