Roger sez: Now that we have anonymous volunteer fellow posters who can impose any change to a selected orignator's thread title as and when they want to - would it be possible and would it be a good idea for clarification purposes - to always indicate to our forum - where and when such an imposition has taken place and who was responsible?

This would avoid the current situation where there is a current thread title that has had a change imposed upon it by an anonymous volunteer fellow poster but which is now less clear and more incorrect as a result of this imposition - but where the title is still credited to its originator? Perhaps as such imposition looks now to be a fact - such action should be seen to be more accountable?

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Good idea, Roger. It's always been our policy. You can tell what the originator's thread title was by looking at the title of the first message. If the thread title is different, it probably was changed (although there are a few exceptions - if the first two messages have titles different from the thread title, then you can be almost certain the thread title was changed by somebody other than the originator). If you have any doubt, I suppose you could contact the thread originator. If the thread title was changed, I'm the person responsible for those changes, whether or not I made the change myself. If you have a complaint about a thread title change, contact me by personal message or e-mail. I'll be glad to respond, although I can't guarantee you'll like my response (and in Shambles case, I can almost guarantee he won't like my response). That's our policy.
Thread titles are not "credited" to anyone, they're just thread titles, used for indexing purposes. Message titles are the work of the message originator, except in certain obvious cases. If a message contains lyrics, the message is given the title of the song.

-Joe Offer, the person responsible-

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