super_etecoon said:
Here's the only problem I see with giving that control to users.... Suggest you create a thread with the title "Post Here if You Love Nintendo" Then everyone who loves Nintendo comes in, signs their name, and leaves. Then the thread creator hits the little "edit thread title" button and changes the word "Nintendo" to "2 Girls and a Cup." Do you see the hijinks that could be avoided by only giving that power to mods? |
Let me ask you then, in your situation, what is the underlying problem? Is it the feature itself or a user abusing it?
You're always going to have troublesome users, spammers...etc, but the solution needs to fit the problem. If one user starts spamming posts, do you take away everyone's ability to post? Of course not, that would be absurd. You're not solving the problem by doing that.
The solution is simply to add a line to the forum rules that says not to abuse the feature and then enforce that rule. Problem solved.
I know this works because there are other forums out there that let the Topic Creator edit the title and they don't have these problems. Did they have the problems you describe at first? Maybe, but time and rule enforcement conditioned the users to understand what uses of the feature were acceptible and what weren't.
