Another way to fix the problem is to allow users to choose their titles, or have their titles be upgraded by the admins if they are a board regular and make usefull and non spam-like posts.



I have seen it done before and it seems to work quite well.



One system I quite liked gave each poster a rating. They start at 0 when they join, and then can be upgraded or downgraded by the admins depending on what they do. If they get down to -5 they become banned, and if they get up to +5 they get to have their own title.