If you select the first and the second posts of a topic, no “Join” option appears in the admin wrench menu. Is this a bug?
Please note that both messages are written by the same author.
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Discourse administrators are unable to merge the first and second post of a topic, even if both are written by the same author. meglio reported this issue, which jomaxro and merefield have also experienced. codinghorror believes this is not a bug, but rather a design choice, as the first post is “special” and considered part of the topic itself, as explained by Mittineague. However, administrators like jomaxro, merefield, and rhrmn find this limitation frustrating, as it prevents them from efficiently merging posts in certain scenarios. As a workaround, tobiaseigen suggests editing the first post and deleting the second, which rhrmn found to be a helpful solution.
I’ve noticed this as well at Stonehearth.
I don’t think that is in scope for this feature, 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.
The first post, although a post, is in a real sense also “the topic”.
So this would be like merging a post not into, but with a topic.
I’m having this issue and it’s frustrating.
I have two posts from same author. I moved them to their own, new, topic, and only after the move did I want to merge the two posts.
Guess I will have to try to move them back, merge, then move them to new topic again. Silly.
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Same issue. New user posts new topic and posts a reply instead of editing their original post. I would like to merge the two posts but this isn’t an option for the first two posts in a topic. Please consider allowing the first two posts in a topic to be merged.
Why not just edit the first post in the topic to clean it up on their behalf, then delete the second post?
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That works. Thank you.