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It looks like you can now edit thread titles if you're the OP, at least for the first few minutes
It looks like you can now edit thread titles if you're the OP, at least for the first few minutes
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PSA: Did you know you can now edit thread titles?
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I think this was supported in the old forum. It was strange that this wasn't the case here too. Glad it's come back. Limit should be ~10 minutes though.
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I can think of a dozen ways this could be abused.
Nope I asked the OP to slightly edit his title and he did
This is a game changer...
Was it? I feel like I remember a mod saying they explicitly didn't allow thread title to be changed by users?
Was it? I feel like I remember a mod saying they explicitly didn't allow thread title to be changed by users?
you mean for a few minutes before the mods reveal the original after someone reports it? it probably won't get too crazy
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This is very welcome, hopefully it means less work for mods.
Or possibly more if it's abused. Only time will tell!
Or possibly more if it's abused. Only time will tell!
Mother of god.
FINALLY.
Oh, wait. Really?
I thought this meant the thread starter could always edit the title, which would be helpful when handling an OT.
FINALLY.
Oh, wait. Really?
I thought this meant the thread starter could always edit the title, which would be helpful when handling an OT.
I'm an admin on another forum that has the same software as this site and there isn't an edit history specifically for titles that are changed by the threadstarter. You can see the edit history of the post itself if the post content is changed, but not the title unless a member of staff has changed it (and even then you can only see the title before the staff member edited it) so I imagine it works the same on here.
Has been the case on my parent site since the beginning and there have been no issues. If some people do abuse it on here, they'll get swiftly dealt with by the mods so I think some are worrying too much. Being able to edit titles on your own threads is very useful. particularly on topics that are constantly evolving.
Hmm... now where did THIS feature come from, I wonder? ;)
Joking aside, this wasn't actually suppose to be live yet. Tech folks found some minor issues to work out, hence why there was no announcement for it. Once these issues are worked out, you'll be able to edit your thread titles within five minutes after your thread is created. We'll let people know when it's ready.
Joking aside, this wasn't actually suppose to be live yet. Tech folks found some minor issues to work out, hence why there was no announcement for it. Once these issues are worked out, you'll be able to edit your thread titles within five minutes after your thread is created. We'll let people know when it's ready.
OT: but I love your avatar. Just started watching the office for the first time over a few weeks ago, I just hit the end of season 7.
It was. The old place used to have two titles: the display one that showed in the list of threads, and a title that displayed inside the thread itself. These were linked up until the window for editing the list title closed. I was in the middle of making an OT for a game that was launching the same day, and I wanted to post something so that people could have a place to talk about the game. The plan was then to edit in the rest of stuff as it got done.
I edited the title inside the thread to be something like "My dog ate my OT; rest of the content coming soon", and because the list title wasn't "locked" yet, it changed both of them. I had to scramble to make sure I changed them back before the window closed.
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Haha, cool, and sorry for the leak then ^^
