I understand that but, with all due respect, it seems like circular reasoning to me. (Please note, I know you're far from the only person who operates by that rule of thumb. Shoot, I was willing to swing that way earlier in this very thread!)Sea Skimmer wrote: Because it makes a random irrelevant person everyone should just be ignoring seem way more important then they actually are. Most of the people who come up for titling or banning are just attention whores, so if we waste time and excite them by acknowledging they even exist it should be in the most minimal way possible, thus a generic title like village idiot.
And even if someone winds up with a "special" title and wore it as a twisted badge of honor, frankly, so what? I think Coyote nailed it: a custom title isn't just about the schmuck bearing it; it's at least as much reminds us, and shows future members, who we're dealing with. That everyone else could see the person has a particular weirdness seems to serve a greater purpose.
