[Shelley_c]

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.