Merging Posts

[GoldenTerrabyte]

I think you should make it so if you post twice in a row it merges it into one post to prevent double-posting.

[WolfsGhost]

If you post twice in a row, you can ask a moderator to merge the post for you, or you can simply copy the second post and post it into the first one, putting a notification in the second (now blank) post informing a moderator to delete the post.

[Pipkin]

If you post twice in a row, you can ask a moderator to merge the post for you, or you can simply copy the second post and post it into the first one, putting a notification in the second (now blank) post informing a moderator to delete the post.

People also have the option of also deleting their own posts so a moderator isn't required to fix an accidental double post

[GoldenTerrabyte]

But that can be a lot of work, and some browsers can't copy/paste. (Yes, it's true. I can't copy/paste.) The idea is to make it so you don't have to do that. And there isn't a mod who's on 24/7, so that can be annoying too.

[Julius]

There's an edit Button and a delete Button. No mod intervention required, to be honest.

[GoldenTerrabyte]

Right, but, I just think it would be convenient.

[Pipkin]

I don't know alot about SMF forums but I believe the merge option is a moderator tool and cant be used by members.  I think the only option is to either manually retype the post in your first post and delete it that way or wait for a moderator to take care of it, but i'll wait for someone who knows these forums better than me to say something about that.

I know you can't do that in Kunena.

[GoldenTerrabyte]

I didn't mean a merge option, I meant like it automatically becomes one post.

[Pipkin]

I didn't mean a merge option, I meant like it automatically becomes one post.

Hmm, in my opinion if such an option existed I would imagine the mods would have already implemented it to save them the work of merging posts, but again, my knowledge of SMF is quite limited

[Liska]

arise chikun
Post Merge: 2013 Jun 07, 14:47:00
chikun nuggits
Post Merge: 2013 Jun 07, 11:47:06
tada.
Post Merge: 2013 Jun 07, 08:48:25
test moar
Post Merge: 2013 Jun 07, 05:50:45
shazam
Post Merge: 2013 Jun 07, 02:51:42
Hopefully the time stamps are correct. 
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MySQL timestamps are stored as UTC, converted back and forth to current server timezone.

Well. The simple solution is to remove timestamps until I figure it out, if ever.

[Tiger]

Yay, now we won't have any more double-posters!
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I wanna try this myself :U

[Julius]

Me...
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... Too.

Huh... Not bad!

[Jenzy]

Testing...
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Alley-oop!

Edit: NICE!

[GalvinRoe]

 How does this affect two consecutive posts that pass the character limit, when combined.?

[Tiger]

How does this affect two consecutive posts that pass the character limit, when combined.?

I didn't know there was a character limit

[Liska]

I think it ignores the character limit, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Edit: It gives you the "The following error(s) occurred while posting this message:
The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (20000 characters)." error.

[GalvinRoe]

I think it ignores the character limit, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Edit: It gives you the "The following error(s) occurred while posting this message:
The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (20000 characters)." error.

Ah dear, I see a rare but potential problematic problem  .

[Liska]

Well I could always remove the character limit, or increase it. But 20,000 characters is a loooooooot of characters, I don't think we'll run into a problem too much.

[GalvinRoe]

Agreed, not horribly often  , but there have been a few places I've exceeded that limit  .

[Chishio Kunrin]

Well I could always remove the character limit, or increase it. But 20,000 characters is a loooooooot of characters, I don't think we'll run into a problem too much.

I've heard of someone somehow reaching that limit in the RP board.

Also, I think Lyra gets close to it sometimes.