Custom Titles: Required Reading

[JaredL]

FWIW I've been pretty liberal with titles, though it's been quite a while since I gave a custom title to someone who didn't already have one.

I would also vote for removing all custom titles and starting over assuming that that would be easy with the software. The reason for this is that it's pretty arbitrary - who gets their title removed and who doesn't is based simply on whether Ryan knew of their title in the past (unless I've missed something here which could be).

I think some guidelines WRT titles would be good. When you say that they should be "kept to a minimum" what does this mean exactly? Nobody needs a new title afterall. Kept to a minimum could basically mean anywhere from only giving them to the top contributors in our forums to roughly the same thing as color changes - basically none except for temporary changes due to winning a contest or doing something very special.

So basically I think all should be removed and then we should come to some stronger agreement over what should go on, and then after that people should make changes only if they go along with the agreed upon guidelines.