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Posting a comment when a thread's title is modified introduces noise.
At comments/thread/11188#comment-27766, I modified the title of a thread. (Specifically, I replaced its title case title with a standard eng sentence, because I've since ascertained that these are more comprehensible for this purpose.) This caused @#-1 [1] to post a comment:
Thread renamed from "Posting This Demonstrated A Bug" to "Posting this demonstrated a bug." by
RokeJulianLockhart
I would significantly prefer an inline revision timeline, GitLab / Forgejo / Matrix protocol-esque, than need to scroll through comments that announce thread changes. Imagine if I hadn't known of this feature, and modified the title a few times in succession! I almost did!
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As Oleg noted in a comment, we added this when we extended renaming beyond moderators. We've seen many requests for people (particularly but not only the creators of the threads) to be able to rename them after seeing an ugly auto-generated comment. We want people to be able to rename, and we also want to guard against misuse. For example, if renaming were silent, then a malicious renaming would be assumed by most to be what the creator of the thread wrote. Sadly, trolling like that is something we do need to guard against.
We want to add proper history for comment threads, at which point these comments would be replaced by history entries. We think this imperfect attribution is better than not making renaming available, but we do recognize that it can be a little noisy.
If a thread has too many comments from renamings, you can flag them.
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