Hi - We’re coming to Discourse from the vBulletin world. One feature I’m accustomed to that I cannot find in Discourse is a “move reply to new thread” feature for admins and moderators. Does this exist in Discourse, and if so, where? Thanks for your time and help. -Justin

Navigate to the Topic Click the Wrench Icon (top right) Click Select Posts Click select on the post you want to move Click Move to New Topic

Thank you both. That was easy. -Justin

came here hoping this topic was exactly about this and will leave satisfied… :triumph:

huh - I never noticed that second (third!) wrench on the bottom left corner.

that was exactly the information that i was looking for. thank you :slightly_smiling:

It would be nice if you could initiate a move from the wrench directly associated with the post. [11%20PM] Much easier than running through the Select Posts approach.

I’ve also been thinking that, but the problem is, you can’t get rid of the select-posts-and-then-move way of doing it because you need it for moving multiple posts. So if you add a “move this post” item to the individual post menu, you will probably have people wonder “but how can I move multiple posts?”. At least that’s how I tried to make sense of why it isn’t there…

Just checking - is it not possible to break selected posts into a new topic if they all consist of whispers? In my Staff category, I wrenched, selected everything below, “move to” and I can only select an existing topic. Is this a behavior specific to whispers - IE it’s not finding any “real” posts to create a topic from? (I guess that would make sense since whispers are supposed to refer to the current posts in the topic.) Similarly, there doesn’t appear to be a way to “unwhisper” something, but I would also guess that’s intentional so private comments don’t get revealed accidentally.

That is an unusual use case cc @techapj

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 13, 2015, 2:52am 3

You can also initiate via the wrench button at the bottom of the topic, too, if you happen to be near the bottom.

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