# Mark a topic as duplicate, close and or merge

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-a-topic-as-duplicate-close-and-or-merge/265275>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-a-topic-as-duplicate-close-and-or-merge/265275 "2023-05-17T04:02:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-a-topic-as-duplicate-close-and-or-merge/265275/2 "2023-05-17T04:24:43Z")

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on my forum, our moderators merge the topic and posts to the existing one. if the first post is identical we don’t move that one, we just close it. either way the topic creator is also pm’d to let them know. i think each forum may have different ways of doing this. we also have system generated topics that can sometimes be duplicates and we close those and merge any reply posts into one.

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