What’s the deal with people being able to edit titles? Can only Regulars do this? I ask because on another forum, we are having some issues with people editing topic titles.
Yes, that’s a feature reserved to Regulars:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/6?u=steko
But I assume each forum will have its own social rules around this?
The key word here is Trust
I can think of two common cases where changing a topic title is appropriate.
A new(er) member posts a less than accurately descriptive title. eg.
“Please help me with this”
Such a title does not convey what the topic is about so it would be justifiable to edit it to something better eg.
“Need help understanding Profile Preference Settings”
Another common case is misspelled words. Though I imagine most humans can figure out what was meant, automated Search isn’t always so intelligent. eg.
“Howto: Stting up an email servere”
should be edited to
“Howto: Setting up an email server”
I guess some people might be more the “spelling / grammar police” type and feel an urge to “polish” titles, but I would hope that such an urge would be generally suppressed.
That is, that most having the capability to edit topic tiles would not assume the role of “proof-reader” or “copy editor”.
Hi All,
We’re having a lot of issues and complaints regarding a large number of users being able to edit all thread titles.
Is it possible to make this an admin only function or perhaps limit thread title editing to the first 5 mins after a thread is posted? I’ve looked and can’t see any options to limit thread title editing - even removing the edit option for all users (which meant admins couldn’t edit posts) still allowed users to edit thread titles.
Would really appreiciate some help.
Many thanks
Sean
Just press the pencil icon next to the date to see who edited anything.
It should be in the edit history of the first post. You’d have to know which topics are making users mad and see if there is a common person involved
Ok. So I have to moderate? Is there no way thread title editing could be curtailed? Obviously it is sometimes useful but getting tonnes of complaints from users and I assumed there is just a combination of settings that I’m missing.
The only thought I have is you have your TL 3 settings too low and to raise them. It will take 2 weeks for it to kick people out of TL 3 (as there is a grace period), but that is the only setting I can think of at this moment.
Is it not possible to move title editing to a TL 4 option? I’ve made it really hard for anyone to become level 4, I think.
TL4 is manual by default.
TL3 should be hard. Here we have only ~30 TL3 users in a 23k user base with 1.6k active.
You have 153 TL3 with 850 active users (17%), maybe raise reqs a bit.
Whereabouts did you see those stats? This is what our admin panel says:
No, they have to fulfill all of them. Posts Read, Flags received, Flags given, et al.
For the record, we only have 42 TL 3 users on our instance (several of them were assigned and locked into TL 3 as they are “staff, but not moderators”).
Hola,
¿Existe alguna forma de recibir notificaciones sobre las ediciones realizadas en los títulos de los temas (o en el contenido de los eventos) por parte de usuarios con nivel de confianza 3 o 4?
El informe más relevante que he encontrado es el ubicado en /admin/reports/post_edits, ¿verdad? ¿Podría haber también una notificación cuando se produzcan este tipo de ediciones? ¿Algo así como cuando un mensaje se marca para revisión, por ejemplo?
Que los usuarios con nivel de confianza 3 y 4 puedan editar los títulos de los temas es una buena función si realmente confías en la comunidad, pero temo que llegue un momento en que algunos de ellos se aprovechen y empiecen a alterar los títulos.
Gracias,
Ilias
Gracias por la respuesta.
No logro encontrar este tipo de notificaciones al revisar lo que está pendiente de revisión (en /review).
Tienes razón en cuanto a advertir o rebajar su puntuación, pero para hacerlo primero necesito descubrir que están manipulando los títulos; ahí es donde entran las notificaciones 
El propietario de cualquier publicación es notificado cuando su publicación es editada.
Por esa lógica, como propietario de la primera publicación en el tema, la persona que creó el tema es notificada cuando el título es editado.
Si no deseas que los usuarios de nivel de confianza 3 (TL3) puedan editar títulos, desactívalo en la configuración de tu sitio:
los usuarios de confianza pueden editar publicaciones de otros
Permitir que los usuarios con altos niveles de confianza editen contenido de otros usuarios
@codinghorror ¿Es posible habilitar la edición de títulos de wikis específicamente? Por el momento no veo esa función, pero sería agradable tenerla.
Lamentablemente no, la capacidad está desactivada o activada por completo.