Well I think there should probably be 3 separate Title methods.
1. Post Count Title (changes depending on amount of posts)
2. Custom Tilte (user, mod, admin changed or allowed)
3. Administrator Assigned Tilte on a per user basis
When #3 is used it disables #1
That would seem to me to appease, handle everyones request as from what I gather more and more users appear to be complaining of how it now works.
Best I can suggest is for now to manually go in with like MySQLAdmin or similar and overwrite the Title as often as needed.
Here is some basic code that SD and I worked on (mostly by SirDude)
DO NOT run it as is. Just posted so you can get an idea of how to modify it by running in Control Panel.
If you want to do something like this then modify it to run on only who you want it to run on.
You MUST edit - do not run directly or you will modify ALL Moderators.
UPDATE ubbt_user_profile as t1, ubbt_users as t2
SET t1.USER_TITLE='Moderator'
WHERE t2.USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL='Moderator'
AND t1.USER_ID=t2.USER_ID
Remember this is only an example.
I really hope that Rick will at least think of implementing something like I suggested above or similar.
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