If you became a member after the SitePoint forum moved to Discourse, you may have noticed that some members have Titles next to their member name but that you don’t.
The former vBulletin forum had several member Titles and gave some members the abilty to use a Custom Title.
When member accounts were migrated from vBulletin to Discourse, their member Titles came with them.
For example, besides the Custom Titles, you might see:
SitePoint Addict
SitePoint Enthusiast
SitePoint Evangelist
SitePoint Guru
SitePoint Member
SitePoint Wizard
SitePoint Zealot
I’ve had a custom title for so long I’ve forgotten.
Can anyone describe just what criteria needed to be met for each of the above?
Brownie points to the first to get them all correctly
Newer members hoping to also have a Title don’t despair, yes, you can have one !
Discourse does things differently so I’ll try to explain.
If you go to your Profile page, on the left you should see Badges(a #), click on that and you’ll see all the Badges you have been awarded.
Some (but not all) of these can be used as a Title.
If you go to your Profile Preferences, go to Title, and click on Edit (the pencil icon) any of the Badges that you have been awarded that can be used as a Title will appear in a dropdown select. Choose one and you now have a Title.
Note, if you already have a vBulletin Title doing this is most likely not reversible, so think about it before you do it.
This is from the old forum, as Mitt mentioned. They are not applicable here. You’d have …arrows next to your user. Kinda like in the army how you have stripes (more stripes === more distinguished)
As you can see, he had some pips… and the number and title depended on the number of posts. Although titles could be changed and write anything you wanted to
That Title is from the posts you made when the forum was vBulletin i.e. 19 posts
The posts you’ve made here at Discourse weren’t counted (because they didn’t exist yet)
The posts made at vBulletin that were migrated to Discourse will add to post count here (some of the older posts were not migrated but changed to static pages instead)
My mistake. As a Mod I see Title inputs, and forgot that the Title option doesn’t appear in the profile until there is a Badge or more that can be used as one.
You sure do !
BTW, do you see the Title option on your Profile page OK? Reminder, don’t try it unless you’re willing to risk losing billycundiff{float:left;}
I see the option, yes. I see no reason to lose my billycundiff text though. Especially after his repeat performance vs the Ravens (my team) a few weeks ago where he hooked ANOTHER wide left kick (against the same team he was ON when he became infamous for the hooked kick!) LOL
So… ahem… Could I be fussy and annoying and ask you to make the ‘of the’ in all-common letters (So it’d read, ‘Shaun of the Dead’)? I have gammar-nazi tendencies.
I promise when next you need some great advice, I’ll happily offer my services!
