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Originally Posted by timsamoff View Post
Honestly, I don't even want to try splitting this thread -- even though I agree that it should. I agree that it would be a big pain (unless Reggie knows of a painless way to do it). I could try, but I'd have to find all pertinent posts, etc. Maybe someone who is passionate about the issue can post a new thread and quote some of the useful passages here. That would be helpful.
Moderators should be able to split out the relevant posts from the thread into a new thread (maintaining post time, ownership, etc.). Not sure how it's done in vBulletin, though.

Originally Posted by geneven View Post
This comment is fascinating because it has nothing to do with what I said. I said that a moderator wasn't needed to start a new thread. You said that this thread is useless. Fine, so start a new thread! You don't need a moderator to do that.
Most forum software has a feature available to moderators that allows them to split out posts from existing threads into new threads. This is not something a regular user could do as seamlessly, and it is what mikkov is referring to.
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