# "Join messages" button for admin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 19, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960 "2015-12-19T13:23:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960/1 "2015-12-19T13:23:36Z")
I noticed some users put a lot of small messages in a row in the same topic. I suspect different possible reasons:
- Some don’t understand that there might be multiple “quoted replies” in a single message
- Others just write messages bit by bit and feel better like this
- Others put one photo at a time and submit it (maybe after experiencing problems with really slow mobile connection?)
Anyway, it would be useful if mods were able to select a few messages, then click the wrench button, and then choose “join” menu.
### Positive effects:
- better readability, especially in the summarized view
- big disappointment for “give like” spammers
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960/2 "2015-12-19T13:27:26Z")
Dup:
> [@Add a "merge multiple responses" admin post selection action](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-merge-multiple-responses-admin-post-selection-action/14904):
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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: 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 t…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/join-messages-button-for-admin/36960/3 "2015-12-19T21:01:59Z")