I've only just picked up this conversation, but it sounds OK, to me, I like Vectors idea too, and I clearly see what he is saying with regards to members and visitors should have a vague idea of what the titles mean.

I also like the Distant spark title. I think the current mod titles are pretty good too.

The only thing I would be worried about Griffin is "essentially dumbing the titles down too much" to make to site more accessable. part of the fun is looking at the Titles and seeing the direct transformers relationship there. too generic takes some of the obsessive compulsive fun out of it.

perhaps a graphic like a tech spec, representing these values might make the terms more clearly transformer related. each member could then essentially have their own techspec. which would be super cool.