Automerging of posts?

The Last Conformist · Sep 23, 2004

I was posting in a thread in OT ("Fall of the US Empire") - the last preceeding post was also by me, some hour or so earlier. I didn't feel like editing it into the old post since it's wasn't about the same thing as the old one.

Nonetheless, the new stuff somehow got copied into the old post. I edited it, cut out the new stuff, and posted it again, with the same result - it was merged into the old one. Is this some new functionality, or a glitch?

Dell19 · Sep 23, 2004

Would be an interesting feature I guess the only way to test it is to make a double post...

And here is that double post...

Clever feature

With this feature does it mean that we may as well get rid of the 30 second rule?

Hitro · Sep 23, 2004

Hmm, let's see how that works.

This way maybe?

EDIT: Interesting. But it can be problematic for very long posts, like TLC mentioned.

Dell19 · Sep 23, 2004

You just make another post in the same thread at least 30 seconds after the first one and as long as someone else hasn't posted in between your posts will merge. My last post was 3 separate posts.

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The Last Conformist · Sep 23, 2004

I think there should be a time-out for this. It does retop the thread, but in more quite fora, there's the risk your new post will be merged with one days old, which I don't much like.

Duke of Marlbrough · Sep 23, 2004

Here's some info from TF:

Thunderfall said:
It will only merge posts if the last posted post is posted within an hour by the poster. If it's newer than one hour, posts will be merged and the thread will be bumped.

The timestamp of the merged post is also updated with each merge.

The hack also checks for things like post size, # of image attachments, etc. So it's not possible to have a post that exceeds the max post size limit. A new post will be created instead of merging

The Great Apple · Sep 23, 2004

That's quite neat.

It will help reduce spam.

EDIT: Hehehe it worked!

Moss · Sep 23, 2004

So when I post an essay or something that is quite long, it isn't going to merge the two posts if I decide to break it up into to posts?

MarineCorps · Sep 23, 2004

When did we get this?

Lefty Scaevola · Sep 23, 2004

Muwah ha ha! 2 birds with one stone. Spam curtailed and double posting ended.

Best feature ever!

Dell19 · Sep 23, 2004

Very recently it seems...

Tomoyo · Sep 23, 2004

Really? I didn't know this feature existed.

Useful thing.

ainwood · Sep 23, 2004

Lefty Scaevola said:
Muwah ha ha! 2 birds with one stone. Spam curtailed and double posting ended. Best feature ever!

[dance]
Well, we asked a while-back if there was a quick-merge feature, and this is way better. :goodjob:

Padma · Sep 23, 2004

Tomoyo said:
Really? I didn't know this feature existed.

Useful thing.

It didn't (here).

Until yesterday.

LLXerxes · Sep 23, 2004

Lefty Scaevola said:
Muwah ha ha! 2 birds with one stone. Spam curtailed and double posting ended. Best feature ever!

Even as a spammer (

), I must say I am impressed and glad.

I noticed this too... Thought it might be some sorta bug

Plexus · Sep 23, 2004

Gosh, glad I setup my NES thread before this was implemented, or this would have been beyond aggrivating.

Perfection · Sep 23, 2004

If you do it after 3 minutes will it have a "last edited by" thingy?

LLXerxes · Sep 23, 2004

Perfection said:
If you do it after 3 minutes will it have a "last edited by" thingy?

No, cause technically your not editing

Perfection · Sep 23, 2004

LLXerxes said:
No, cause technically your not editing

I'm not so sure about that

I want to test this, please don't post here until I finish testing (should only be 5 minutes)

Test concluded, resume posting

LLXerxes · Sep 23, 2004

Perfection said:
I'm not so sure about that

OK, your right.
I wasn't so sure...

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