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Because that was the default setting.I'm open to other times if anyone feels strongly.
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Well, five minutes might indeed, be too short a period of time - and it is more than reasonable for posts to be merged in that time frame - but, might 24 hours perhaps be a little long, as the 'merged' posts are quite likely discussing different things, or different aspects of the same thing?
Now, as it happens, I don't have strong feelings about it, I merely wished to raise it.
If you reply multiple times to a thread, without someone else replying in between, it will automatically merge your posts together into one post.
I'd say an hour should be plenty of time. Longer than that and any follow-up is likely to be a completely new thought that likely merits a separate post to draw attention to it.
That was my thought, too.
Twenty four hours struck me as too long between posts to consider merging them - as it is unlikely to have been the exact same topic that had been discussed, - and certainly not the same train of thought - while five minutes is a bit short.
Thanks a lot. An hour strikes me as very reasonable.
I'm grateful to the Macrumors moderators responding the way they did. Having this solution is perfect! I also think the one hour hold pattern works well.
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Arn deserves the thanks since the plugin is what we needed
As I mentioned, this does make interacting in the forum more pleasant
In the response, it was respectful, and that is what I meant. I know that you all are on a "higher level" than what goes into the rest of the forums, but I was pleased with the interaction on this question.Arn deserves the thanks since the plugin is what we needed
As I mentioned, this does make interacting in the forum more pleasant
Out of curiosity, while all of this has been working most of the time for a while now, there have been times when I will occasionally see subsequent posts from the same user in a thread that are only minutes apart that don't seem to be combined together automatically--what could be behind that?
Unless I'm overlooking something, one of the more recent examples of this would be a few posts in a row from the same user just minutes apart that are all separate, starting at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...your-experiences.1995263/page-4#post-23462453
I've been seeing some more instances of this kind of thing, like a recent one with the post at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rms-of-discoverability.2002715/#post-23648094 and another post from the same user just a minute or so later that follows it as another post rather than being merged together.
If the member uses Tapatalk, then that for some reason doesn't get auto-merged - at least that was the cause for most of the auto-merge failures in the past.