Add "select below" and "select above" admin post selection action

It happens a lot that when splitting topics, you more-or-less need to select all posts downstream of a certain post to get a proper split.

This is a pain in the ass in the current admin interface:

  • you have to manually walk down all the posts and click them, though “select+replies” helps a bit.
  • the selection UI is crazy slow for reasons I don’t fully understand. Like absurdly slow, 1 second wait after each click.

So I suggest we add an “above” and “below” button after “select” to make it easier to select all the posts above or below a certain point in the topic stream:

Warning: @eviltrout said this feature might be hard since the posts you’re selecting may not be loaded in the stream.

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Better would be “mark start” and “mark end” buttons. Everything in between gets selected. It would cover the use-case above, as well as when a topic needs to be split into more than one topic (something I am coming across right now)

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(Sorry for the bump…)
Just saw this in the Suggested topics while reading about the new timeline feature. This would be awesome if it could be implemented! Personally, I like @haiku’s idea, with the ability to select a start and end post for the move command, sort-of like holding the Shift key down in many lists.

Couple of use-cases for us:

  1. Bug report that veers off topic, grab the posts needed, and move them.
  2. (This is where the end selection is needed, not just “select below”) - long discussion taking place, moving in different directions, but staying on-topic. After a while, we realize that a section of the discussion has become relevant to something else, and need to merge.
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Very much in favour of this.

“select + replies” is a bit of a false promise, because reply-chains are very prone to user error. 90% of my post splits are done on either the last N posts in a topic, or the last N posts except for 1-2 replies that went back on-topic.

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