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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: knn on December 14, 2005, 11:01:13 pm

Title: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: knn on December 14, 2005, 11:01:13 pm
I have two questions: What's personal text (in edit profile) and is it the same as custom title in profile summary?
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: CP5670 on December 14, 2005, 11:21:38 pm
As far as I can tell, it gets added to the picture/text section in your profile. Not exactly sure what the point is.

On a side note, I was going through my PMs and had an old one from someone who the database couldn't find, who was shown as having 2-∞ posts. Excellent touch, whoever put that in. :D :yes:
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: knn on December 14, 2005, 11:29:00 pm
As far as I can tell, it gets added to the picture/text section in your profile. Not exactly sure what the point is.

On a side note, I was going through my PMs and had an old one from someone who the database couldn't find, who was shown as having 2-∞ posts. Excellent touch, whoever put that in. :D :yes:

User does not compute :D

The only problem is that it's quite silly to have custom titles and personal text. If I can modify my personal text and it shows below my name, why can't I modify my custom title? New users who registered after the move do not get a custom title by default, while everyone else has their old title of Apollo etc.
Ok, I've changed my personal text, let's see what it does...<post>...Nope, it's not shown
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Flipside on December 14, 2005, 11:45:40 pm
Custom titles are awarded either as a reward or punishment for action taken in the community, you cannot assign your own title, only Admins can do that.

I'm still trying to figure out which category mine comes under ;)

As for personal text, mine has read 'What the hell does this do?' since I arrived here, I still haven't found out...
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: knn on December 14, 2005, 11:55:03 pm
Custom titles are awarded either as a reward or punishment for action taken in the community, you cannot assign your own title, only Admins can do that.

I'm still trying to figure out which category mine comes under ;)

I know that. Then it seems that the custom titles like Apollo remained as a side effect of the move, because new members don't have them at all.

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As for personal text, mine has read 'What the hell does this do?' since I arrived here, I still haven't found out...

That's what I wanted to know, but it seems that it doesn't do anything :( ... not that I had anything creative to write under my name.
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Flipside on December 15, 2005, 12:07:06 am
Yup, looks like the all custom titles were carried over, including things like Apollo.
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Martinus on December 15, 2005, 05:44:59 am
'What the hell does this do?'
I don't know if it's due to the time of year or simply a brain fart but I read that to the tune of 'do you see what I see?'
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: kasperl on December 15, 2005, 09:54:58 am
Looks like someone simply tore it out of the style, but forgot to change the setting to show the option to users. Look in the admin panel near 'post options' for 'allow custom personal texts' or something like that.
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Flipside on December 15, 2005, 03:37:45 pm
'What the hell does this do?'
I don't know if it's due to the time of year or simply a brain fart but I read that to the tune of 'do you see what I see?'


:lol:
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Ulala on December 15, 2005, 04:16:28 pm
Custom titles are awarded either as a reward or punishment for action taken in the community, you cannot assign your own title, only Admins can do that.

I'm still trying to figure out which category mine comes under ;)

It looks like the "bang your head on you keyboard" category. But hey, at least you have one!  :p ;)
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Taristin on December 15, 2005, 05:12:53 pm
Custom titles are awarded either as a reward or punishment for action taken in the community, you cannot assign your own title, only Admins can do that.

:nervous: There was a brief period when users were able to change their own if they had a high enough post count. It was removed because of spammers like Cobra and Ephili, though...
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: vyper on December 15, 2005, 05:30:21 pm
It's rather spurious for everyone to clamour for self-written custom titles anyway. If you can't express yourself in a sig, how the hell do you expect to do it in a title?
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Ulala on December 15, 2005, 05:53:02 pm
Well, writing your own is lame for the very reason you pointed out. Having one given to you is cool, simply because it's kinda like someone else's description of you (the admins' no less!) I mean, I guess you could ask someone to write something about you for your profile but.. no, that's lame too.  :p
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Polpolion on December 15, 2005, 07:43:37 pm
I wish I had connections so I could get some 1337 coustom title.  :(
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Unknown Target on December 15, 2005, 08:02:52 pm
I wish I'd finally get one :p
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Ransom on December 15, 2005, 08:04:34 pm
They're just custom titles. It's not as though they're going to let you shoot lasers out of your eyes.
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: achtung on December 15, 2005, 08:07:42 pm
my custom title should reflect what I found out my name means recently. :D
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Ulala on December 16, 2005, 01:36:48 am
They're just custom titles. It's not as though they're going to let you shoot lasers out of your eyes.

lol.. if it did, people would kill for them!
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Nix on December 16, 2005, 03:01:21 am
I'd rather have a link to an off-site avatar instead of a custom title myself. 
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Singh on December 16, 2005, 05:12:41 am
I wish I had connections so I could get some 1337 coustom title. :(

Be careful what you wish for.....the custom title you get may just be worse than what you have now :/

*still sad that he hasnt accomplished anything special or notable :(
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: kode on December 16, 2005, 05:55:51 am
bork bork bork.
Title: Re: Custom titles and personal text
Post by: Fineus on December 16, 2005, 06:59:10 am
Spam not these good forums.