# Cannot merge first and second post in a topic even though both are written by the same author

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-first-and-second-post-in-a-topic-even-though-both-are-written-by-the-same-author/49444>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Agosto 30, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-first-and-second-post-in-a-topic-even-though-both-are-written-by-the-same-author/49444 "2016-08-30T16:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [Agosto 30, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-first-and-second-post-in-a-topic-even-though-both-are-written-by-the-same-author/49444/4 "2016-08-30T23:31:51Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> as the first post is a bit special

What makes it special? Doesn’t this feature just merge the posts - in essence automating the process of copying and pasting the content and then deleting all but one post? At the moment, when a user (typically new) posts multiple times in a topic (because they can’t have more than 1 image), we merge all the posts (except the first) and then manually copy and paste the image links and delete the remaining post. Not merging with the first post removes a big use case for us from this feature.

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