Continuing the discussion from the Citadel refer megathread: Should we change it to Citadel CU refer megathread? Citadel refer megathread This company's refer demand has surged recently, so this refer megathread was created. After all, this is the Citadel CU refer thread, not the refer thread for the Citadel that settled with the SEC. @admin
Would renaming narrow the scope?
If you change the title of a pinned post, people who previously saved it or found it through search may no longer recognize it. It's best to keep the original keywords in the body or tags as a transition.
The post says this is a Citadel CU referral thread, but it never explains which campus or which program CU specifically refers to. If CU could mean several different things in this context, the mods should probably check with the poster about the scope before changing the title, otherwise after the edit everyone will still be guessing. Also, whether the surge in referral requests is based on the number of replies or on DMs affects whether the title should highlight CU.
Don't rush to make changes—wait and see if the demand persists.
What really deserves attention is the line "not the Citadel that settled with the SEC"—it shows that name confusion is the real reason for changing the title. Rather than just adding CU, it would be better to build the distinguishing point into the title structure, such as the city or the business line, so that later discussions don't keep circling back to the name.
On the matter of changing the title, I think we first need to confirm where the demand for referrals is actually coming from. If most of the recent surge is from CU students or job seekers, then adding CU would indeed help distinguish it; but if it's just more posts without a change in the audience, changing it might actually make it harder for people originally searching for Citadel referrals to find this dedicated thread. So it would be best for the mods to look at the account backgrounds or comment content of these recent referral requests to see whether there's a clear concentration pointing to the CU group, and then decide whether to touch the title.