# Editing Titles .

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 12, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307 "2007-08-12T02:12:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307/1 "2007-08-12T02:12:38Z")

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This is just a little test to see if you can edit titles. This is only a test. (If it is successful, “REMOVE ME” will be removed from my title.)

_IT WORKED!_ Sadly it is too late for me to now edit a couple of titles I want to edit. Oh, well. For the most part the titles are okay, so I will just leave them the way they are.

This was only a test 🙂 .

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**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307/2 "2007-08-12T09:33:01Z")

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Mods are able to change titles if you ask them nicely.

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**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307/3 "2007-08-12T18:04:58Z")

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[QUOTE=essell]  
Mods are able to change titles if you ask them nicely.  
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(Include beer and dark chocolate)

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307/4 "2007-08-13T07:03:09Z")

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Actually, changing titles, (to make them more meaningful), is something most of us will do without the bribes, since it cuts down on the number of Reported Posts complaining about meaningless titles.

(Send the bribes anyway, of course.)

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**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-titles/415307/5 "2007-08-19T23:34:48Z")

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