But.... can't the moderators just MERGE threads?Sidebar Moderator:
Piece of cake, right John?John Robinson:
Merging is an interesting idea.'Tis quite interesting, but how to do an actual merge without REALLY upsetting the applecart. I (and a lot of others) have occassionally linked to specific replies in a thread, and simply squashing everything into one thread would blow those links right out of the water. The current solution of simply locking duplicate threads is about as close as we're going to get to an "ideal" solution.
There IS one trick that may work better; when a thread is locked for merging purposes, if the "post reply" function would go to the "merge" thread (preferably while the "reply to:" link still goes back to the closed thread).