Silly Title wanted, or not!

[Mael Coluim]

Wow a 90 day poll! I think management will have an idea before then. I think these three fellows said it best.

That thread about titles was important to me to read. I am compelled to join into the conversation. Unfortunately my opportunity to speak up disappeared before I knew that the thread had come and gone.
I very much enjoyed the prospect of attaining the next available title. My goal had been to advance relevant conversation at more opportune occasions while having fun with the growth of my own presence on this forum. I am not to be stifled. I don't insult as far as I know and I attempt to be friendly, concise, informative, humorous and relevant.
Certainly, I've posted congrats and hello's and yes to this or no to that as a course of increasing my post count which leads to automatic title advancement. That, to me was a fun game and it contributed to my feeling engaged in this forum. New ownership and new management in my experience rarely permits the existence of a former method of operations. That in itself often leads to a turnover of regulars who see an influx of new visitors and users that see nothing different but stay because there is a continuity present and an apparently familiar banter being cast.

I am resistant to change for change sake. I am slow to embrace the new when it doesn't seem necessary. However, I quickly jump off when the old begins smelling. And here, at XMTS the titles also help cover that moldy oder that comes up in old wool kilts. Just a few thousand more posts and I might one have been far advanced enough to be a "Grand Defender of the Oder of the Kilt" order of the kilt.

The titles were a significant element to my humor here at XMARKSTHESCOT.
If anyone cares to note or even go take a look, you'll find that in one of my earliest posts {6-6-6} I make quite a bit of good sense of the titles passed out to the locals (which I became).

There are numerous other forums in the world that have many people attentions divided. There are few forums in the world that have peoples undivided attention. My attentions go to more than one forum. I'm one of those whose attention is divided amongst this and others. Title at some of the other forums seemed too directed toward identifying the individual rather than just something a bit more fun, whimsical, if you must, such as here at XMTS.

I implore you, ownership and mod staff along with you brothers and sisters to recreate and renew the vigor and interest in the fun aspect here and press to RESTORE the titles to us, the users whom sometimes need to see even a Whimsy or trite recognition, even if it is only a meaningless counter to some.

It meant plenty to me.

Surely no one takes these titles seriously? How can they? BUT, they do add to the tongue in cheek and gentle fun that I come to this website for. As a member of this website I was fortunate to be honoured with a special title, now some would say "big deal" and that is their right. Speaking for myself it was rather nice that "some people somewhere" had thought that I had contributed, unwittingly, enough "something" to warrant that gift. You know, getting a pat on the back from people from all over the world whom you had never met and in truth are never likely to, is rather nice and frankly, it meant something to me and it also does add, on occasion, to the fun and humour in no small way. Alright, perhaps its time to start with a clean slate, perhaps its time to streamline things, but let us not take away the opportunity for a wee bit of fun. Let us add to the fun, not take it away. Steve, I know you have a lot on your plate reorganising your, it is yours when all said and done, website, but can I ask you to reconsider the "Title" issue.

This is my first, and perhaps only post concerning the removal and/or restoration of titles. I never really paid much attention to them when we had them, and didn't even notice when they were removed until people started discussing it. So count me in that camp that doesn't really care one way or the other.

But it has occurred to me reading the posts in this and other threads, that people either post to say how much they miss the titles and hope they come back, or they post to say that (like me) they never really paid attention to them so it doesn't really matter.

I have yet to see a post by someone who adamantly feels that they should not come back and have no place in the forum.

I think that fact alone may be telling....