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Why Can't We Edit Thread Titles?

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blaskillet4 said:
Question. Would changing the title bump the thread?

Because then I could see this easily abused, especially in the market place...
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no, it shouldn't bump it.

arn
 
spicyapple said:
So, how soon when we can delete our own threads? :)
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This used to be an option, but if you delete your thread you're taking out all the posts within that thread as well. It was abused and has too much potential for abuse in the future, IMO.
 
Rower_CPU said:
It was abused and has too much potential for abuse in the future, IMO.
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I agree. It would be very unfair to the people that contributed something worthwhile to the thread and could definitely be abused if people are being petty.

I think being able to change thread titles is great. Hopefully it will alleviate some of the spelling errors that often occur. :)
 
What about a thread starter being allowed to close ones own thread. Not the same as deleting. Or is that giving a person to much power?

And thank you Arn for the new tool.:)
 
I like the idea of double-clicking the thread title to edit it, but at least in Firefox 2.0b2, it still "follows" the link to the thread, so unless I change it super-fast, or hit Cmd-Period super-fast, it goes to the thread before I can type in my changes in the forum page. Is there some way around this?

edit: and clicking thread links doesn't work at all for me now in Safari (the whole page goes blank and the URL bar's contents disappear, as if I had clicked a link to about:blank), though I don't use it much so I dunno if it's a new problem, or always a problem with my Safari, or what...
 
Finally, somebody can fix the 'Hay Guys' FAQ (which I'm still not clear on if it was an accident or intentional :( ) !
 
Today:
"Sign up here by posting to receive an Apple shirt for $10 (need 20 buyers)"

2 days and twenty people signed up later:
"Sign up here by posting to receive an Apple shirt for $20 (need 20 buyers)"

I've known some forums to not allow it for reasons similar to, but more serious, than the example above.

Maybe allow it in all places except the marketplace?

MR team know's what they're doing...I trust whatever decision they make :)
 
Or... what about allowing the thread starter to change the title only once. Kind of like a freebie... you make a mistake, you get one chance to make things right. :) Any more would require a moderator to change the title... should nip any abuse in the bud right there. Well, at least keep things from getting out of control.
 
Ummm....I always thought we had the ability to edit thread titles anyway. I remember starting a thread with a screwed up title just a few months ago and changing it by double-clicking next to the title where it's listed in the forum, and then scrolling to it again and changing the title. When you double-click next to it (in Safari, anyway), the text box changes to an edit field and the page jumps back to the top. That's worked for me since I accidentally found it a few months ago. :confused:

EDIT: I should point out that this only ever works on threads that you have created...;)
 
On some forums they give you a time limit to edit the thread title. In case you make a simple mistake. Maybe 1 hour to edit or even as low as 30 mins would give someone more than enough time to correct it.
 
elfin buddy said:
Ummm....I always thought we had the ability to edit thread titles anyway. I remember starting a thread with a screwed up title just a few months ago and changing it by double-clicking next to the title where it's listed in the forum, and then scrolling to it again and changing the title. When you double-click next to it (in Safari, anyway), the text box changes to an edit field and the page jumps back to the top. That's worked for me since I accidentally found it a few months ago. :confused:

EDIT: I should point out that this only ever works on threads that you have created...;)
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There was a timelimit on it - you could edit the title for 5 minutes after it was posted but then it was locked. The idea presumably being to let you fix mistakes but not alter it later and make it hard to find.
 
Knox said:
There was a timelimit on it - you could edit the title for 5 minutes after it was posted but then it was locked. The idea presumably being to let you fix mistakes but not alter it later and make it hard to find.
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I just tried it again a minute ago on a dead thread of mine that's a little over a month old, and it worked without a hitch. Is that because Arn changed things already?
 
Shouldn't this thread title be edited to, "We Can Edit Thread Titles".:p
 
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