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201161.10 in reply to 201161.9
Date: 11/4/2011 5:54:42 AM
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This could happen also now!


if this happen now, we had to close it and the manager who does so get at least a warning.

There is no connection between your reply to the suggestion.


it was an example, there would be 2 name change links in the list of new threads and one additional for the normal threads. I believe you wanted it like the moved threads links, right?

I guess that the GMs control it, but they also can control it under my suggestion.


so we give the name change option, but don't allow to use it?

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201161.11 in reply to 201161.10
Date: 11/4/2011 6:04:07 AM
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This could happen also now!

if this happen now, we had to close it and the manager who does so get at least a warning.
I've meant - Also now the users can create multiple thread's names, as you implied that can happen under my suggestion.

There is no connection between your reply to the suggestion.

it was an example, there would be 2 name change links in the list of new threads and one additional for the normal threads. I believe you wanted it like the moved threads links, right?
I'm not sure what you've menat.
What I've meant is.
There is a single thread - let's call it "memory" or "disk space".
And there will be (when there is only one name change) two soft links - names ("pointers") that just points to that "memory".

I guess that the GMs control it, but they also can control it under my suggestion.


so we give the name change option, but don't allow to use it?
Again, I don't have a clue what you've meant here.
I've meant - the GMs (probably) can change current thread's names when they are not proper (one way or another), and it could also be handled under my suggestion.

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201161.12 in reply to 201161.11
Date: 11/4/2011 6:38:52 AM
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I've meant - Also now the users can create multiple thread's names, as you implied that can happen under my suggestion.


how? And why you suggest it then again?

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201161.13 in reply to 201161.12
Date: 11/4/2011 7:39:12 AM
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I've meant - Also now the users can create multiple thread's names, as you implied that can happen under my suggestion.


how? And why you suggest it then again?
Let's try again...
You have claimed that my suggestion will create multiple threads with the same name.

I wrote that it is not so, as it is not so on current system.

It does not happen on current system as the GMs are hadnling it.
They could do the same under my suggestion definition.

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201161.14 in reply to 201161.13
Date: 11/4/2011 8:20:51 AM
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Starting a new thread with a different name, but still talking about exactly the same thing, is not ok.

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201161.15 in reply to 201161.9
Date: 11/4/2011 12:07:52 PM
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then you had multiplicate links there to, like "need hlp", "need help", "how to train Hans Sarpei" who all go to the same i don't know if it make that much better especially in forum like help english.
There is no connection between your reply to the suggestion.
This could happen also now!

Actually, no. What CrazyEye is saying is that the forum topic list (the left-hand side menu with the links) gets more cluttered if changing the thread name creates a "soft link" in addition to the original thread link (now with modified name). One becomes two, no?

Last edited by GM-WallyOop at 11/4/2011 12:08:15 PM

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201161.16 in reply to 201161.15
Date: 11/4/2011 5:38:19 PM
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then you had multiplicate links there to, like "need hlp", "need help", "how to train Hans Sarpei" who all go to the same i don't know if it make that much better especially in forum like help english.
There is no connection between your reply to the suggestion.
This could happen also now!

Actually, no. What CrazyEye is saying is that the forum topic list (the left-hand side menu with the links) gets more cluttered if changing the thread name creates a "soft link" in addition to the original thread link (now with modified name). One becomes two, no?
The main reason is that a change of thread's name is not "name-change by chance" but it happens due to a need - when the topic of the thread had been changed or enhanced. So in any case there will be two threads.
Only that in current system some of the content will be "reproduced", as it is part of the new enhanced subject (as well as the original one).

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201161.17 in reply to 201161.16
Date: 11/4/2011 8:46:54 PM
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It must never be made available on the user level. There is no need for it and it will cause confusion amongst users.

Imagine you posted in a thread 12 hours ago, went out, came back home and logged in again and the name of the thread has changed and you have to go dig through a number of threads before you find it again.

There just doesn't seem to be any use cases for it to be implemented at all.

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201161.18 in reply to 201161.16
Date: 11/5/2011 3:35:42 AM
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The main reason is that a change of thread's name is not "name-change by chance" but it happens due to a need - when the topic of the thread had been changed or enhanced. So in any case there will be two threads.

It is very much a "name-change by chance". That's just how many people operate.

If there is a compelling reason to change a thread title, ask a GM or a forum Mod. More often it is a GM/Mod changing it for you without asking since threads are typically named "by chance" as you put it. The current system works.

From: Ashurri

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201161.19 in reply to 201161.14
Date: 11/12/2011 2:26:52 AM
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Imagine everyone discussing about something read later the thread's been changed into "Justin Bieber fans, let's discuss here!"

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201161.20 in reply to 201161.19
Date: 11/12/2011 4:38:46 AM
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Imagine everyone discussing about something read later the thread's been changed into "Justin Bieber fans, let's discuss here!"

I wrote here (along the thread), that what can be done is to have a two links (one with the older name and one with the new name) that will point to the same thread.
Moreover, it could be defined that who will read a thread will always see only the proper link (thread's name).
In addition, the current name could be added to the header, below the "link" name.

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