# Cleaner handling of multiple consecutive replies by the same user?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaner-handling-of-multiple-consecutive-replies-by-the-same-user/20116>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Setembro 16, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaner-handling-of-multiple-consecutive-replies-by-the-same-user/20116 "2014-09-16T14:39:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![cregox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cregox/32/115904_2.png) [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)\
**Post date:** [Janeiro 12, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaner-handling-of-multiple-consecutive-replies-by-the-same-user/20116/17 "2015-01-12T00:41:56Z")

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I’m sad this discussion have ended without a resolution (from my point of view).

I stumbled upon this while [discussing about discourse elsewhere](http://discourse.codecombat.com/t/a-little-bit-about-meta-discourse/2304) and now, thinking about it again, there are at least two aspects that we haven’t brought, even if they’re obvious…

- _good_: multiple posts make it easier to edit each one separately (when they’re meant to be separated) and keep track of edit history and time of edition.

- _bad_: in an active discussion they can break the intended continuity by having other people post in the middle of it and so it can cause a topic to be even more fragmented into interlaced sub-topics. (maybe that’s why you don’t want that behavior?)

For the second one, I think if the sub-topic threading works good enough, there’s no need to worry.

All in all, maybe all I would do would be removing the avatar and name when there are multiple consecutive posts, and trying to separate a single post into such multiple ones when they’re multiple replies, to keep a better sub-topic thread consistency. Maybe even offer a switch button to “merge” and “separate”.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/8/0/08060d876eddeac50730e47d4e3ecb84535958c2.png) ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/txhr1lrrqkpc89s/Screenshot%202014-09-16%2012.39.25%20%28even%20better%29.png?dl=0)

I’m definitely not interested in making any kind of fork, or even programming this but again, if any you [@admins](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/admins) could “assign” such a task to me I’d make my time (a long time) to try and implement it. That’s how much I think this should be done! 😛

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