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I'd bet you can do it with access to the back-end database. i.e. change the "Title" field of the particular Post dB record. Users can't do it and I can't see Simon (Webmaster) doing that on a regular on-demand basis. I doubt that Mods have that degree if access, although I believe they can delete threads.