Thread: Identifying merged posts
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2009-11-20 , 16:38
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Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
This post is strange. Notice how it points to the very thread it's currently in. I'm sure it was merged from somewhere, yet there is no indication of that.
I apologize for causing confusion.

Four posts down from the post you cite, I posted:
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Threads merged, title adjusted slightly to (hopefully) increase visibility in search, and tags added to (again, hopefully) assist with search.
I intended that to help future readers recognize any strangeness they may have encountered in the preceding posts could have been due to threads being merged.

Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
A "[merged]" tag for each post would remove some head-scratching when seeing this kind of posts. A "[merged from thread #]" would be even more useful, showing which posts belong to every thread (which might be useful in places like 'shipping delayed', where there is a lot of merging)
The degree to which I dislike the idea of editing posts would be difficult to overstate. There's ugliness down that path, and I want no part of it.

Even were that not the case, the work involved in adding a little note to every post in a merge would be prohibitive.

Can you think of any alternatives that would be helpful?
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