dobster

When you are able to add a personalised title, do you choose one yourself at the start, or are you assigned one by the mods? (or the rockers?!).

In addition, is the title "banned" that i have seen under some contributors' names an ironic or literal thing?

phredgreen

along with other benefits, a title comes along after sufficient participation... that's the most specific answer you're gonna get without doing a search for the answer yourself. btw, massive groan on the (or rockers?!) comment.


as for the people whose titles are "banned" or "loser," the title means exactly what is says. they are the people who dicked around, spammed, plugged, threadwasted, or lied about their age/sex/intelligence levels. we're an adult community and expect everyone to live up to that simple standard.

if you have any other questions, feel free to pm me or any of the other mods... we're here to help.

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dobster

Thank you sir. Actually, Mr Ph, my first query was less "how do I get a title?" but more "who chooses what it is?" Alot of people have "Tilted" and... oh something else I can't remember (EDIT: Insane). Are these given before the personalised one is attained, as a sort of "you're gettin' there buddy!" ?

Oh yeah, fanx for the props about my rockers ting.

They were props weren't they?

Paradise Lost

It is a sort of you're getting there buddy, if you've ever been to other forums, primarily
computer ones, they have titles after, let's say, posting 100, 500, 1000, 2000 posts.
Here, you're Rookie, Tilted, Junkie, Insane... something like that...

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dobster

Brill, cheers for that.

blar

i am glad you guy ban people who lie about their age/sex/intelligence levels....geez on another forum i visit.. i believe some of the "women" are really men posting but no one does anything about it.

phredgreen

props indeed.

the given titles have been pre-selected by a highly-paid committee of geniuses and nobel laureates who have spent millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours poruing over the best titles to give to our membership as they progress through the tfp. it was a painstaking process, and in the end, they had to resort to pulling names out of a hat, but it was done, by god.

(100% fact)


(not really)

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Suave

I'm of the firm belief that the majority of the TFP regs are, in fact, thousands of monkeys on thousands of computers. Prove me wrong folks.

Paradise Lost

And the best they could come up with was "Crazy" and "Psycho" ??? :P

PS: Love the second quote Phred, read the article with it from Fark earlier today...

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tecoyah

In answer to your question.....I was Psycho when I got the custom title.....but the switch is flipped by the Mods/Admins when you are deemed ready, could be at any time depending on the quality, and quantity of posts. I'm just waiting for Stephen Freakin' Hawking to come in here and go from "Rookie" to "Master of the Unbelievably Small" in a day.

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dobster

Sorry Tecoyah, I haven't fanked you for this further explanation. FANKS!

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sig-na-ture
1. One's name as written by oneself.
2. The act of signing one's name.
3. A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity.

MSD

We trained them to type "thanks," "lol," and "i'd hit it" and set them loose. Anything else was picked up from the rest of you. In reality, the whole site is jsut a big psychological experiment designed to test the learning capacity of the average monkey.

I don't know what will happen to me for releasing this information, or even if it'll make it past the screeners, but I hope they just put me in a cage fora few weeks without much food instead of selling me to the shampoo manufacturers like they did to Jimmy.

dobster

ooh ooh ooh (lol [ooh])

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sig-na-ture
1. One's name as written by oneself.
2. The act of signing one's name.
3. A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity.

xerraire1

and the see if the monkeys come up with better thoughts then the humans...

Shpoop

im not a newbie, but i have a question

if i were to change my custom title to "Banned", would it trick a mod or admin into banning me by accident?

Glory's Sun

I doubt it would trick mods or admins but I'd say don't do it unless.. you really really really want to.

sonikeko

OK, so with the titles, it works on a system of "Quality Posts" instead of "hell yeah!" and "WOah, I bet she likes the &*#@$". SO, at the risk of sounding like an ass, what would warrant a "QUality Post" short of putting one nanosecond more thought into them?

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Seething

So it's monkeys on computers typing "w0w", "lolz", and "capital knockers" then? Thank God. For a second there I thought humanity was getting stupider and the country was doomed to be run by complete dimwits in the future. Well it's a good thing I'm wrong and they're just monkeys typing away. We dodged the bullet this time....

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avhg1

This is nothing new, they have been doing tech support for HP and Compaq for years!

Glory's Sun

a quality post is one that either answers the question directly or expands on the current thought and/or poses a new thought process. For instance, if a thread asks a question. Don't just answer yes or no. Expand on the reasoning behind why you put yes or no.

tecoyah

Try to reply in the Non-Erotic boards....they are far more likely to compel you to create an insightful answer.

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sonikeko

Though I didn't really before, I'm trying more and more now...can you believe that I was a member since late 2002 and this is the first time I have visted "Tilted Newbies"!? Anyway, thanx for the advice

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