# Allow moderators to break topic title rules
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Novembro 17, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039 "2016-11-17T20:33:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@pakl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pakl)
#### Post date: [Novembro 17, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039/1 "2016-11-17T20:33:52Z")
If I, as the owner of my forum, want to post a topic with a cryptic title, it would be nice if discourse would let me do that without having me go and change a global setting first.
A “Yes” button, or a “I know what I’m doing” button would be nice here.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Novembro 17, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039/2 "2016-11-17T22:00:16Z")
Not possible, all the validation paths will fail later (say, when someone tries to edit the first post body) if the title doesn’t validate.
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### Author:  [@pakl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pakl)
#### Post date: [Novembro 17, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039/3 "2016-11-17T22:50:10Z")
fair enough. I just temporarily changed the rule to get it around it.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Novembro 18, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-break-topic-title-rules/53039/4 "2016-11-18T00:37:40Z")
It’ll fail to edit later if anyone tries to edit it, will be the main side effect.