Thanks!
Good to know.

 

I don't have the THREAD TOOLS at all, so it must be either an INSIDER-only feature, or there's some other requirement one must meet to have it.

 

This Thread Tools button is definitely available for all thread starters, even if you're not an insider. At first I had made a mistake in my introduction thread's title. I started by asking mods to edit my title before finding out about that button. It's definitely there !



Thanks for making this guide, it will help a lot of newcomers !

 

That must be only visible (at least for non-INSIDERS) within the first 10 days before the thread/post is locked for editing. I don't have the THREAD TOOLS on the only post I've started here (which is more than 10 days old).

If this is the case, then people would still need the help of mods to edit a thread title after 10 days. (Unless, as I said earlier, there are some other criteria which I don't meet.)

 

I apologize @George Appiah. The time limit makes sense !

 

The title thread change tool is ONLY available to Insiders. @MJ DeMarco mentioned this in another thread.

I recently changed the title of a thread I made over a year ago.

 

It might be a bug, but I successfully edited my thread title just now using the "Thread Tools":
INTRO - Aspiring to fullfilment, happiness and life. TEST EDIT Number 2

 

Thanks @Raoul Duke.
Just changed the name of one of my NOTABLE threads.

As a side note...
There's another section in the "Thread Tools" called "Promote Thread."





Hmmmmmm.

 

Non insiders can edit their thread for like a week or two before it timed out. Your thread is less than a week old which is why it works.

 

"Promoted" a thread 5 minutes ago.
Doesn't seem to do anything yet.

 

Waaaaaaay back when I administered a Xenforo forum***, several add-ons had this "promote" feature that would turn or promote forum threads into generic news articles. Summaries of these promoted threads or articles could be displayed on the homepage (or on any configured route ) in various ways like a portal, and the individual promoted thread would live outside the forum structure (thread responses became article comments).

XenPorta was one of the most popular add-ons offering this feature, but there were several others.

*** This was a very long time ago, in the early beta days of Xenforo when founder Kier Darby was going through nasty lawsuits simultaneously filed in the UK and US by his former employer and then vBullentin owner, Internet Brands.