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@Velocio
To do what?
One of the things I have to balance is giving people the right level of control. I want to give as much as I can, but no more.
When I think of editing thread titles, where the thread has no replies I have no issue at all. But as soon as there are replies, then the replies are in the context of the thread title and prior replies to the thread.
If I allowed thread changing after the thread has replies, then there could be a real issue in that people could be duped into replying in a context that they never would. For example one could start a thread called "Add your username for a free beer" and wait until there were 50 replies and then change the title to "Add your username if you suck cock".
It's very easy to abuse and game.
Though if your intent is to communicate that a classified item has sold, then I'd rather have a status indicator on the thread... title stays the same, but the indicator changes from "For Sale" to "Sold" and prevents it coming up in future searches.
So the question I would ask is why the title should be changed (outside of asking a microcosm moderator/owner to do it).