Going from memory from when I was an admin:

Mainly it is a limitation of vBulletin's user groups. In order to allow members to edit their titles, we'd have to make everyone a moderator w/ a very limited permissions set. I do believe that vB allows the OP to edit their thread title for a limited time period (i.e. within 90 seconds), but there's no way to make it permanent.

Ironically, I think there are options that would allow users to move, close, or delete their own thread - but not edit the title. And no, we won't give those to you, either.

 

Thanks WSB ! Shame all mods can't be as gracious with their time.

Sasd...I gotta say man, I have no idea why you quoted youreself as it was in no way an answer to the question I had. What's the point in coming off like that... just don't answer at all.

It is a harmless enough Q.

 

Umm...I had already answered the question, I didn't see a need to type out an identical reply, so I quoted myself to save time. It didn't answer the question?

 

Sorry sasd, doesn't look like you answered it He asked the reason why we can't. Not what we should do instead. But you're a busy guy, probably read too fast

 

OK, my misunderstanding then. This is certainly a better way to point that out to me. We have no plans to allow users to change their own thread titles/details because we currently don't see the need based upon the volume of requests we get. Requests are now easily handled by Staff and amount to a very small amount of our workload. If we were being swamped by requests, we may have considered this a bit further.