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

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

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

I’m trying to move a reply in a topic to a new topic. As far as I can tell, the topic / post doesn’t have any security settings that would restrict what I can do with it e.g. it’s not a whisper. I can move other replies in the topic, that were posted before & after the post that I can’t move, to new topics. The user whose post I’m moving is at trust level 4 but isn’t an admin or a moderator. I’m trust level 4, an admin & moderator. If I choose ‘select+below’ when I select the post I’m trying to move, I still don’t have the option to move the posts to a new topic. Is there anything else that could be limiting my ability to move this post?

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adamengst (Adam C. Engst) April 4, 2018, 9:14pm 9

It would be nice if you could initiate a move from the wrench directly associated with the post.

Much easier than running through the Select Posts approach.

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