Admin option to disable editing of subject line in replies?

[revolver8657]

Hello:

I recently (in August) migrated from a Perl threaded-view board to SMF. I love it. My users have grown accustomed to it (biggest complaint is topic view vs. threaded view). I don't care anything about threaded view, but my users have an annoying habit of editing the subject line in their replies. They developed this habit when we were a thread-view board but it drives me crazy in topic view. Plus, Blackberry / WAP users can't see the subject lines of replies so they miss part of the post.

Is there a way that you brilliant dev types could make it an administrator option to disable the editing of subject lines for replies?

[Oldiesmann]

Sure.

Themes/default/Post.template.php

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<input type="text" name="subject"', $context['subject'] == '' ? '' : ' value="' . $context['subject'] . '"', ' tabindex="', $context['tabindex']++, '" size="80" maxlength="80" />

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<input type="text" name="subject"', $context['subject'] == '' ? '' : ' value="' . $context['subject'] . '"', ' tabindex="', $context['tabindex']++, '" size="80" maxlength="80"', !isset($context['current_topic']) ? '' : ' readonly="readonly"', ' />

That will make the subject field read-only if they're posting a reply