# Add a "merge multiple responses" admin post selection action

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-merge-multiple-responses-admin-post-selection-action/14904
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc, spec
**Created:** [April 20, 2014, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-merge-multiple-responses-admin-post-selection-action/14904 "2014-04-20T07:05:28Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2014, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-merge-multiple-responses-admin-post-selection-action/14904/1 "2014-04-20T07:05:28Z")

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For users that insist on posting multiple sequential replies, especially short ones, it would be nice to have a “merge posts” option appear when you use the admin wrench to begin selecting posts in a topic, and then **select a few posts by the same user in sequence:**

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/1/1f7f9bf4fea41356466e4f51ce57236d36e0a928.png) 

This does make it somewhat ambiguous what happens when 3 different replies “directed” at 3 different users are combined. Not sure exactly how to handle that, but for now I would just remove any explicit replies as part of the combining and come up with some kind of improvement later.

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