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johntea

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Is this a new feature?

I replied to my thread where the last post was by me and instead of adding a post it seems to have merged into the previous one


The only problem is it doesn't make it too obvious which text is from the existing post and which is from the new so it may make a slightly confusing read!

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Is this a new feature?

I replied to my thread where the last post was by me and instead of adding a post it seems to have merged into the previous one
I wouldn't call it new. Probably about a year or so.
 

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I think it doesn't merge the posts if they're more than a week apart. And not at all in the trip reports section (and one or two other sections, but I can't remember which).
 

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I can see the point of it, but it is a bit unnerving when you innocently post some new information under your last post and are immediately sent a mail alert and find it has been merged. Editing posts is often the best option but there are times when you want to add completely unconnected comments in a separate post.
 

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I can see the point of it, but it is a bit unnerving when you innocently post some new information under your last post and are immediately sent a mail alert and find it has been merged. Editing posts is often the best option but there are times when you want to add completely unconnected comments in a separate post.
It is annoying when you want to make two totally unconnected comments although the need for that often arises from previous thread creep.
 

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Did ask the mods about this a while ago, unfortunately there didn't seem to be a clear consensus as to how long a period of time needs to elapse between one post and the immediate next one on the same thread without them being automerged.
 

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It is annoying when you want to make two totally unconnected comments although the need for that often arises from previous thread creep.
That's what the "+Quote" option is for. You can add quotes from several posts in the same reply.
I can see the point of it, but it is a bit unnerving when you innocently post some new information under your last post and are immediately sent a mail alert and find it has been merged. Editing posts is often the best option but there are times when you want to add completely unconnected comments in a separate post.
Like so.
 

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Last time I tried to use the +Quote function I got into a right old mess trying to get it to work. It seems something unique to this forum.
 

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That's what the "+Quote" option is for. You can add quotes from several posts in the same reply.
Exactly. Even the same post more than once (to miss out completely parts that are irrelevant to your contribution, particularly if the response is to an automerge). I don't think it is written down anywhere, its just experimentation!

There is nothing wrong (I would have thought) about annotating a post with say 'First reaction', 'Detailed response', 'Its going from bad to worse', 'Thirty minutes later' or whatever to indicate that part was written later, better than 'automerge'.
Last time I tried to use the +Quote function I got into a right old mess trying to get it to work. It seems something unique to this forum.
It does seem to place them in the order that they were originally posted, not the order that you '+Quote' them, which is why I do them one at a time!
 
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I can see the point of it, but it is a bit unnerving when you innocently post some new information under your last post and are immediately sent a mail alert and find it has been merged. Editing posts is often the best option but there are times when you want to add completely unconnected comments in a separate post.
It is annoying when you want to make two totally unconnected comments although the need for that often arises from previous thread creep.

I have, on several occasions, found this "auto-merge" arrangement maddening -- I'd go so far as to say "penalising". The frustration can be great, when one is participating in a thread which is not getting a great deal of traffic; and the last post was made by oneself -- then, relatively shortly afterward, there comes one's way some new factor which one wants to raise in the thread. Unless one is prepared to wait for seven days (!), or until / unless someone else chances to post in the thread and move it onward; one's "follow-on" post is automerged -- so the "most recent post" date on the thread's entry in the sub-forums's list of threads, remains the same as that of one's previous one: there is nothing to tell participants who might be interested, that one has made a new post in the thread.

That's what the "+Quote" option is for. You can add quotes from several posts in the same reply.

Sorry if this is a dim question -- I'm not too clever about any of this kind of stuff: are you saying that if I make one post, say on the 1st of the month; then on the 3rd, discover something else on the topic, which I want to post about (nobody else having posted in the meantime) -- if on the 3rd, I Quote my original post of the 1st, and then make a new post as though it were a reply to that original one: the "most recent post" date on the thread's entry, as mentioned above, will change from the 1st to the 3rd (as it wouldn't do, if I just let the new post automerge)?
 

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I have, on several occasions, found this "auto-merge" arrangement maddening -- I'd go so far as to say "penalising". The frustration can be great, when one is participating in a thread which is not getting a great deal of traffic; and the last post was made by oneself -- then, relatively shortly afterward, there comes one's way some new factor which one wants to raise in the thread. Unless one is prepared to wait for seven days (!), or until / unless someone else chances to post in the thread and move it onward; one's "follow-on" post is automerged -- so the "most recent post" date on the thread's entry in the sub-forums's list of threads, remains the same as that of one's previous one: there is nothing to tell participants who might be interested, that one has made a new post in the thread.



Sorry if this is a dim question -- I'm not too clever about any of this kind of stuff: are you saying that if I make one post, say on the 1st of the month; then on the 3rd, discover something else on the topic, which I want to post about (nobody else having posted in the meantime) -- if on the 3rd, I Quote my original post of the 1st, and then make a new post as though it were a reply to that original one: the "most recent post" date on the thread's entry, as mentioned above, will change from the 1st to the 3rd (as it wouldn't do, if I just let the new post automerge)?
If you go to the original post, at the very bottom there should be links for 'Report' and then 'Edit'. If you click on Edit, it will open up your previous post and you can add to it, edit it (if you have noticed a spelling mistake or accuracy error - say a fleet number). There should be a button marked 'Save', click on that and your addition/ amendment will be implemented. ('Cancel' leaves the original unchanged).

I've just used 'Edit' because I notice I'd missed the 'r' off of 'your'.
 
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If you go to the original post, at the very bottom there should be links for 'Report' and then 'Edit'. If you click on Edit, it will open up your previous post and you can add to it, edit it (if you have noticed a spelling mistake or accuracy error - say a fleet number). There should be a button marked 'Save', click on that and your addition/ amendment will be implemented. ('Cancel' leaves the original unchanged). If you look back at #10, you will see I've said hello to you before you posted (naughty, really).

I've just used 'Edit' because I notice I'd missed the 'r' off of 'your'.

@Typhoon -- thank you ! The next time the described situation besets me, I'll refer to this post of yours.
 

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I think it makes sense - I just rely on it as a feature now when I CBA to press edit lol...

It's only an automated feature, so not like you are being actively penalised for posting below yourself!
 

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@Typhoon -- thank you ! The next time the described situation besets me, I'll refer to this post of yours.
I am going to remove my salutation to you and the reference to it as that really isn't in the spirit of the forum but I will leave the rest. Incidentally, your question was not dim, it was one that you didn't have an answer to at that time.
 

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It does seem to place them in the order that they were originally posted, not the order that you '+Quote' them, which is why I do them one at a time!
You can re-order the quotes in the review window by clicking and dragging on the three-line icon to the left of each quote.
 

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I have noted sometimes, when transgression has appeared, besides the usual notification, the following then appears:-
"Members watching this thread have been sent an alert"
There used to be a message when automerge was triggered, imploring you to edit the original post instead. I queried this with the mods, as it seemed rather unnecessary not to use a feature provided for our use, and it was changed to the current version.
 

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You can re-order the quotes in the review window by clicking and dragging on the three-line icon to the left of each quote.
Thanks. One of the real positives about this forum is that, even though there are things members may disagree with others about, they are willing to help each other out whether it is with tips like this or in the 'disputes; or 'advice' threads or just generally. I've tried it and it works for me.
Thanks again.
 

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Last time I tried to use the +Quote function I got into a right old mess trying to get it to work. It seems something unique to this forum.
It's not unique, but the other place I know of it's existence does do it better.
 

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.... there is nothing to tell participants who might be interested, that one has made a new post in the thread....
Yes there is; it does alert people who are subscribed to the thread.

I have noted sometimes, when transgression has appeared, besides the usual notification, the following then appears:-
"Members watching this thread have been sent an alert"
Transgression? I'm not sure what you are referring to!
The only problem is it doesn't make it too obvious which text is from the existing post and which is from the new so it may make a slightly confusing read!
Simply say something like:

"Edit: here is an update..."

...completely unconnected comments ...
It would be connected in some way, if it's in the same thread.
 

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Yes there is; it does alert people who are subscribed to the thread.

I'm afraid that hitherto, I've been oblivious to the above-referred-to. To be frank, in many ways I belong in the scribes-with-quill-pens era ...
 
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