>>Sometimes thread titles are misspelled e.g. today there is
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>>Thread#
1513687 "Using GoGish" (should be "Using GoFish")
>>Thread#
1513804 "F1 Help Stumpter" (should be "F1 Help Stumper")
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>>Some are amusing but a side effect is they won't be found in searches.
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>>ISTR it used to be impossible to update a thread title once the first message was saved, is it now possible to do so?
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>>UPDATE: just tried to update the title of this thread, doesn't seem to be possible.
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>No, we cannot because some would change the entire topic of a thread after and would confuse everyone involved in it. This goes the same with a message. If someone replies, it wouldn't be nice if someone would change the previous message pretty much entirely making then the message for the reply to look obsolete.
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>Some sites allow this. Here, we always adopted this policy in order to avoid some weird situations that already happened on several other sites.
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>If there is an update like that, just let me know.
OK, so you're saying that, as the site administrator, you can manually make an adjustment to a thread title if someone requests it. I see you've done that with the two threads I mentioned above.
This time, we achieved the change by posting a message in the UT forum of this site.
Another possibility would be to enhance messages by adding a "Request Thread Title Change" function. This would ask the user what they think the title should be changed to. That request could then go straight to you. That request would automatically show you:
- Thread ID
- Current thread title
- Proposed new title
- Name of the requesting user
Regards. Al
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