Player Titles - Ideas, Suggestions, & Comments

-Grey- · Post Post #113 (isolation #0) » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:36 am

In post 1, Psyche wrote:
My overall strategy for preserving and building this institution will be to emphasize title standards on the one hand, and to help users more frequently meet them on the other.
Better titles, more titles.

Allowing players to request their own titles does provide more titles (thank you), but not holding those requests to a standard of acceptability does not provide better titles.

-Grey- · Post Post #122 (isolation #1) » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:19 am

The old way was a bit too much "good old boys" club.

I'm on board with players being allowed to ask for a title, I just think there should be standards applied to those requests.

Approving titles simply because they do not break site rules allow for titles such as "I am garbage", and while that title may technically be acceptable according to site rules, it's not exactly healthy. It promotes a negative self-image and an expectation of unworthiness. Not to mention it's just bad for site morale. Regardless of how the member may feel about themselves, they should not have a negative image validated with a title.

-Grey- · Post Post #125 (isolation #2) » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:23 am

Wrong thread.

-Grey- · Post Post #128 (isolation #3) » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:30 am

In post 127, vonflare wrote:
In post 122, -Grey- wrote:The old way was a bit too much "good old boys" club.

I'm on board with players being allowed to ask for a title, I just think there should be standards applied to those requests.

Approving titles simply because they do not break site rules allow for titles such as "I am garbage", and while that title may technically be acceptable according to site rules, it's not exactly healthy. It promotes a negative self-image and an expectation of unworthiness. Not to mention it's just bad for site morale. Regardless of how the member may feel about themselves, they should not have a negative image validated with a title.
Have you ever interacted with cheet

A title shouldn't require personal knowledge of the member to be taken in context if the natural assumption is a negative one.

Everybody on the site doesn't know every single other person. Inside jokes are one thing, but when the uninitiated see negativity and don't understand the context behind it, it will leave them with a negative impression for the site itself.

-Grey- · Post Post #140 (isolation #4) » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:41 am

Wasn't Psyche known for shooting down noms during Chevre's reign?

This is lulzy.

-Grey- · Post Post #166 (isolation #5) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:30 am

In post 165, gigabyteTroubadour wrote:pizza with pineapple is delicious dont u dare insinuate otherwise

+1 this

-Grey- · Post Post #170 (isolation #6) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:20 am

In post 169, Aristophanes wrote:Pineapple is great on its own, just not really a pizza thing!

Blasphemer.

-Grey- · Post Post #173 (isolation #7) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:55 pm

McMenno's name has seven letters.
mastina's name has seven letters.
Therefore, McMenno is... mastina?

-Grey- · Post Post #181 (isolation #8) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:09 pm

In post 180, Aristophanes wrote:mastina is Nahdia.
McMenno is mastina.
Therefore, McMenno is... Nahdia?

FTFY