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Thank you for clearing this up. Has it been considered having a subtitle showing [previously titled: xxx] or some such when a title is edited? Or possibly rel
by Fuzzwah 13y ago
Thank you for clearing this up.
Has it been considered having a subtitle showing [previously titled: xxx] or some such when a title is edited?
Or possibly relying on a flagging feature along the lines of "misleading or editorialized title"? Rather than just changing all/most titles?
- nmcfarl 13y agoI think these are exceptionally good ideas. The only reason I typically care about this conversation is that a year ago or so I was tracking an article that I saw the "new" page, and it got its title changed to something insanely literal like "Post #4". Which of course tanked it's chance of getting off the new page and me learning anything about the topic. Either of your suggestions would have solved this problem.
- dsrguru 13y agoHaving a "flag this title" feature is the best suggestion I've seen so far. If there aren't enough moderators to read articles before reverting titles, then having the community do it makes so much more sense than doing it blindly. This approach gives intelligent first posters the necessary flexibility to change the title for any of many valid reasons (I still can't believe your comment that they changed the title of that serial killer article, killing one of the most chillingly powerful articles of the last month), yet it prevents first posters from abusing their priority even more effectively than the current approach.