Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Jay
...users may enter whatever title they wish, but the traditional high-level Jedi/Sith rankings will be reserved for those deemed worthy by the community.

If a user may enter whatever they wish, what's to stop them entering "Jedi Knight" or similar? I say forget the worthiness bit, and just let people have a free-for-all.

The reserved titles would be blocked. You could enter the text, but the software would spit out an error. Easy enough for me to filter out on the backend.

Now that I read it again, the whole "worthiness" bit sounds snotty and cliquey. Too subjective I think.

How about reserved user titles determined by post count and signup date simultaneously? Just as an example, let's say Jedi Knight is conferred upon someone with 1000 posts and at least 6 months of membership. They could race to build up the post count, but they'd be denied the title until their membership reached the 6 month mark.