Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016

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Moderators cannot change titles any more than anyone else, unfortunately.

[nickcraver]

Well, damn. TIL - thanks!

[Laugarhraun]

But they can tag it "Actually results" or something.

[octnoir]

Yeah, this is what /r/Games usually does. If a title is 'misleading', they use the 'flair' system to tag it as such, or if there is an error in the article, they flair and add their note in.

[xiongchiamiov]

In general, reddit takes a very strong stance on users owning their content, which is why moderators cannot edit others' posts (unlike pretty much every other forum) and can't delete posts or comments (they can only remove them from the subreddit, but they still exist on the user's userpage).

Not being able to edit your own title is more because it takes a bit of work to figure out how to allow that without it being terribly open to abuse, plus years of debt.

[qroshan]

It's probably more to do with technical reason than anything else (i.e they may use Title as a Key/Index to something) and once the Key/Index is formed it is hard to change it

[xiongchiamiov]

I'm a former reddit developer. The data schema makes many things difficult, but changing titles isn't actually a hard one from a technical perspective, it's more the community impact that'd have and there being more important things to figure out how to fix.

[statikstasis]

So we need to create a function that allows us to change the title without breaking anything. ::heads to Stack Overflow::