Suggestions to improve "preserve chronological order after merging"

[JammyDodger]

@rahim123

1.2 It seems like the “preserve chronological order after merging” option should be checked by default. I can’t think of a scenario where I would want a jumbled thread of unordered posts.

I’ve been thinking this too after accidentally skipping it a couple of times.

@rahim123

When the first post in a topic is selected to be moved, it currently moves it (or copies it?) to the target and then locks the original topic. This creates needless clutter, and requires an additional moderation step of deleting the original topic. It would make more sense to automatically delete the original topic.

Just some additional context - this currently has a setting, delete merged stub topics after days which defaults to 7. Unfortunately in this case, ‘0’ disables it rather than acts immediately.