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Editing Thread Titles

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(Originally brought up at https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/3359#comment-11064)

Can we allow thread starters to edit the title of a comment? This could be useful in cases like, for example, https://codegolf.codidact.com/comments/thread/3417#comment-11178, where I originally was asking about the input format, but then edited to ask about both input and output formats, but could not change the title to reflect that.

The one concern mentioned in the thread was

On the other hand, the title is more of a "shared resource" and we don't yet have a visible audit trail.


The following duplicates have been raised, indicating the level of demand for this feature:

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

I think if we log the history somewhere, maybe in mod tools or even for now just in the DB, that'll be sufficient. The threat model would be hostile edits: a comment thread turns into a heated argument and somebody changes the title to "so-and-so is an idiot" or something -- we want to know who did that. Not that I'm worried about our current users, but you've got to plan for the worst case. I'll ask the team what's feasible here.