I made the list? Well look at me, moving on up!
I'm on another message board, and under your name, they put a little phrase based on a certain song of this particular artist. The newbies start off with something real obscure, and the real old time posters get a phrase with the hugest song or album made by that artist. This way, you never know how many posts, and some of the newbies get some real cool phrases, so theres no contest or bashing.
Example:
The_Omen
Yellow caped Mario
Mouse-clicker
Zora suit Link
ThePerm
Varia suit Samus( sorry, i know samus is a she, but the character is what i'm going for)
Newbie
Bob-bomb
And this can go with any characters in all the Nintendo games, so you'll virtually have thousands of choices. Maybe if the mods set their own parameters for when you reach a new level, then we wont know what it takes to move up.
Come on people, with some fine tuning, it can work!