[Elsie]

Just tossing out an idea, FWIW..is there any way that when you hit the PREVIEW button when posting a new thread....the title automatically goes to the Search function, and in addition to the preview of your new thread, it displays any threads that meet the Search parameters within, says, a two hour time limit...

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What!? You want computers to do automatically what we humans could do manually?

I'm filing a protest with the ACLU.........

Automatic Computing Luddite Union

[Elsie]

But.... can't the moderators just MERGE threads?

That would solve both problems:
Multiple threads on same subject, and,
MY valuable reply not vanishing into thin air as a thread gets pulled. ;^)

[captain11]

the title automatically goes to the Search function, and in addition to the preview of your new thread...

I like it, a lot :). Combined with the extended search on the first part of the article bodies I suggest in #89, it would go a long way to solving the problems. Another feature that could help the moderators would be "thread-merge", wherein multiple threads that are later determined to be duplicate can simply be combined, using the best-formatted article variant as the initial post, and the thread consisting of the union of all posts from duplicate threads.