# Moderator tool: Merging posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-tool-merging-posts/12762
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 17, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-tool-merging-posts/12762 "2014-02-17T01:26:07Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-tool-merging-posts/12762/6 "2016-08-05T09:23:25Z")

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> [@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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