The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83090   Message #1548217
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Aug-05 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: In the UK......? (thread title change complaint)
Subject: RE: In the UK......? (thread title change complain
Face it, Roger - If you want to use a library analogy, the "book" that you write could just as well be the individual message in a thread - and in your case, it often IS book-length. You do control your message and its title, but the thread is the work of all who participate in it. I suppose we could make a rule and say that the thread and its title are under the control of the thread originator, but there is no such rule here.

In fact, when we did not have the ability to fix thread titles, we constantly had people lecturing other people on the proper method to title a thread, and it really got old.

It certainly is valid for you to think that a thread title should be controlled by the originator, but that is your minority opinion, a personal opinion that you have expressed over and over again until you have bored us all silly. There are valid reasons both for and against thread title changes, but mostly it's an arbitrary thing, a question of "yes" or "no" - and you have been overruled. You are amidst intelligent people, Roger, and you cannot change their minds by simply indundating them with the same words spoken over and over again. A decision has been made, and the only person who can overrule that decision is Max; so you really need to speak to him directly about it if you wish the decision to be changed. And so, I ask once again:-Joe Offer-