Example: cicindela has: Steve @ ΩF Can I add one of these, too? Or, is it only a privilege enjoyed by the administrators?
It gets bestowed on you by the Mods. Sometimes when you wind them up like @STANDY or in my case, for a post of pure belligerence. Others have been given theirs for outstanding collections of a particular watch or in recognition of their personal contribution to this hobby via their own web-sites, such as @mondodec and others.
It is almost always a punishment, just not necessarily that you've done anything wrong, but just because,.......... there is evil that lurks..............
It could be worse...... Two of them were quotes by the members themselves, the other a play on an old joke.
Hey Lou, there is a certain voldemortesque Zenith personality that could be used as an avatar for offending Zenith posters (he who's name should not be mentioned). But alas, I fear a thought such as that would rain down a great chill of fear throughout the force, and that a member would prefer that they be banned from all places where the word Primero be spoken rather then have such fate befall them