OK, I wanted to revisit this post from neimen after the last election:
So here's my beef -- the mods and admins are going to pore through all of the election poll results to root out bogus members, which has to be a pretty tedious and time-consuming process... but then at the end of all of that, they can't or won't take 5 minutes of time to change the custom title of the incoming and outgoing Presidents and Vice-Presidents? How does that make sense?

I'd think it would be much more practical just to ignore all of the election shenanigans (I mean, who cares if someone takes this shit seriously enough to go out and get their cousin's nephew's girlfriend to register and vote?) and just allow the winner to get a custom avatar and/or signature. What is the harm in that? How could that be a big deal?

But failing that, if the mods and admins want to clamp down on election "fraud", that's OK with me... but getting at least a custom title out of it seems like a very, very, incredibly small concession.

Of course, we could just resolve the whole matter by making me President for Life... but considering that the post-election poll was evenly split between my term being either the Era of Shame or the Era of Unspeakable Evil... maybe there's not a lot of popular support for that idea.

That's too bad that custom titles won't be given out anymore.

Yet another failure of the mojo administration.

I think I know her.

i missed the no custom title post last year
but mojo has a title

i didnt know we had issues we #1 or #2.. never heard of anyone creating multiple accounts to vote

but #3

Yeah, baby. Sexy Groucho is only in this for the custom title. The ladies love it! Mmm-hmm.

They're basically saying that I would be the last one with a custom title. Which is pretty bogus -- I mean, how long does it take for an admin to come along and change four user titles? Five minutes, tops?

My understanding is that it did happen last year. A number of "new" accounts were started up at or around the election and never posted but voted in the election.

Yeah, but how is that a really big deal???

And in any case... OK, if the mods and admins want to go all Crawford v. Marion County, that's fine with me. But to volunteer to do all of that extra work and then say, no, we don't want to spend 5 minutes changing user titles... that makes no sense.

Mojo makes a strong case. I'd be curious as to the reasoning behind this.

It's almost like anything that makes Otter unique is slowly eroding away.

Signing up a second, or fifth account is a violation of the forum rules.

I would suggest anyone voting in the election poll, must have several posts under their belt. It can't just be a drone account to stuff the ballot box. The bogus accounts signing up just to vote make more work for the mods.

I agree with #1 and #2, but, as others have said, don't understand #3.

I don't think I can count any higher than that, so please don't put any more conditions on the election.

Well, yeah, sure. But I was saying that having first-time posters voting -- having someone's grandmother's cousin's neighbor's dog sign up to vote -- just isn't a big deal.
I don't think I agree, but again -- I don't really care that much. If the mods and admins want to comb through the election results and unleash their inner Ron Klain, that's fine with me. But, c'mon, why can't they give the winner a custom title? RandyC used to change user names and hand out custom titles like candy... why the reluctance this time around?

When I win, can I have the title of "Empress" instead of president? Thanks.

You know - there are members (not including mojo and myself) that have custom titles. I don't mind, I'm just sayin'.....

Speaking of custom titles, isn't it supposed to be Otterfarm?



oh, and I'd like to add my support for keeping custom titles.

Yes - I agree - Mojo and I should keep our custom titles indefinatly.....

Pres Emeritus / VP Emeritus?

Of course retirement will just be a ruse as the strings will continue to be pulled from behind the curtain...

So... don't these threads in Feedback get read by mods and admins? Can I get some kind of quasi-official reply?

quasi-official reply

Thanks, pilot. I knew I could count on you.

So you're going to change the user titles for our winners, right? Sweet.

negative. i was thinking more of the lines of making the winners post count reset to zero and suspending them for a week

Aww, come on, pilot. Don't you get it? Now that RandyC has stopped posting here on a regular basis... the position of "fun, cool admin" is wide open! Don't you want to become the new RandyC? Be a sport, pilot.