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After I posted a reply earlier on, I replied to another post on the same thread and that reply seems to have been appended to the one before. Is this a new feature of the board?

For reference here is the resulting Chewy's chest - Creative wording competition

It must be mike_a as I have had this happen to me as well. But in my case both posts were done at separate times, but as no one had posted since my first post, the posts should have been consecutive but were merged into one.

Were your posts supposed to run consecutively?

... Over to Ed.Bill

Exactly the same happened to me as well, which was a bit confusing because I was responding to two different posts, and even though my posts were consecutive, they should have been separate as they made no sense when joined up.

Let's see if I can repeat the problem:

*****This is the end of my first post*****

and here is my second post... I wonder if it will be merged?

>>>Third post - well I guess that answers that question...

what are you *post one

talking about *post two

It's all very confusing... please make it go away, my feeble mind can't deal with this on a Monday

then dont reply to your own last post until tomorrow...

But I like chatting with myself, it's the only way I can have an intelligent conversation

Consecutive posts from the same user in the same thread will be merged together.

This is a new feature that was introduced after the forum software was updated.

Not only will that hit the posting stats of those who like writing lots of one-liners, it will make it difficult to move off-topic comment trails into new threads...

This board seems to be posessed by demons at the moment.

It'll not make any difference about moving off topic threads within a thread mike_a, a certain amount of leaway will be called upon as always.

Even when there is a mixture of off and on topic replies in one post?

That'll be a lot of cutting and pasting for the mods, or will they just judge on if there is more "off" or more "on"?

I should think that's one of th reasons it was implemented - to stop people bumping up their post count by "writing lots of one-liners".


Not really any more difficult than it already is. People often make off-topic comments in the same post. We usually just leave them - if the comment causes a whole new thread of discussion within the existing thread, we'll split those posts off and add a quote from the post that started it in the first post of the new thread.

You've done this before, haven't you Ed Bill?

It just struck me that this feature may also very well be a back-door to edit your posts after the editing time has run out...

But I now see that the replies aren't concatenated after 33 minutes... Then you get 2 separate posts.. Or have you disabled it again?

how many posts did you do to find that out

well i like this new feature grovel grovel grovel...

Yes, the same feature has been on Toytown Munich for ages. (I only got round to updating the software on britboard around 6 months after the new version came out.)