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It means that the account holder requested for their account to be deleted.
Users who are premium subscribers can write their own text. Pretty sure that’s what that is and it’s someone making a joke
...I'm pretty sure that isn't true, otherwise I'd likely see someone with the title "Sexlord" by now..
anyways, yeah, like @MmkLucario said, that's a title given to people who wanted their account gone (in the FAQ)
As @MmkLucario has already stated, it means that the account holder requested that their account be closed.
Thus, it differs from a suspension, which is when the staff have terminated the account of a user (usually because of violations of forum rules).
I'm pretty sure it at least used to be true then? Maybe you can only pick Demi-God/Goddess and Contributor now?
As to the last part of your statement, that is correct. A Contributor cannot pick any other option besides the 3 you listed.
And no others were available in the past? Huh; Fake memory on that one. Sorry for confusion on here
As a Contributor, from what I recall, you can choose "Contributor", or "Demi-God", or "Demi-Goddess", or simply retain your current title (which, in your case, is "604") while remaining a contributor.
Given that the designation "cancelled" has a very specific meaning when discussing membership of the forum (as it makes it publicly clear that the member/poster in question has requested - of the staff - that their account be closed), I would be astonished if it had ever been possible to use it anywhere else in the forum, even in jest.
The term "suspension" is used on MR not only for situations which are temporary, such as a few days or longer suspension, but also in situations which actually are permanent. Somehow "Suspended" sounds gentler, nicer than "BANNED", although I think the latter term is also still used as well in some scenarios.
We don't make a (public) distinction between suspensions and bans: details of moderation are private, so we don't indicate whether a given member is temporarily suspended or permanently banned.
I think we might have used "Banned" in the past, but that would have been several years ago.
Actually it was 3-4 years ago. Back then, it used to be Time-Out or Banned. To be honest, I don't mind which method is used. In the end, everyone will know when someone is banned if after a month the "Suspended" user doesn't return.
Furthermore, I don't think that using the old monikers breaks any moderation policy as they don't state what happened; just that discipline happened.
Also, there is a the Guest title that is even rarer and was given to users back vBulletin days who closed their accounts.
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Actually, if memory serves, I think that "banned" may have been used (which made clear that the suspended state was permanent, as opposed to the term "time-out", which denoted a temporary ban, or suspension, which was also used then) prior to the migration - a number of years ago - to the current server.