[quote=@Ellri]
not sure that's an improvement... Won't that change make it harder in the future to allow people to edit topic titles? Editing topic titles is something a lot of people want, and its not something that moderators should have to do.
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The topicID (75056 in this case) is all that matters. The title portion is pure luxury that can be changed.