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Ok with me. But since this is my first top-level posting, is there anything I need to know before I change the title?
I have heard people say that changing the title causes the post to be re-sent in the RSS feed (I wouldn't know, since I don't use RSS myself). Perhaps that bug has been fixed by now, but if not, then it is a good idea to make any title changes as soon as possible after posting.
I think that happens because if you change the title, it'll get a different title and URL sent in the RSS feed, and the reader is going to think it's a different item. There's an RSS tag, <guid>, which is meant to work around this by allowing the feed to specify a unique identifier for each item, but the LW RSS feeds use it incorrectly; it uses the post's URL as its value, and that changes when the post's title changes. I think it would work correctly if it chopped off the post title part and just sent (e.g.) "http://lesswrong.com/lw/2qm/" in the <guid> tag.
I think we've still got the bug.
Yup.