# Move duplicated topic automatically

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-duplicated-topic-automatically/134058>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-duplicated-topic-automatically/134058 "2019-11-21T17:49:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-duplicated-topic-automatically/134058/4 "2019-11-21T18:28:41Z")

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Thanks for the explanation 👍

> [@RozvM](#):
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> members getting this error and because of that they adding (for example) punctuation marks to the title of the topic. As time goes on, more titles are messing up because of that.

This sounds like a behaviour issue rather than a software issue. The software can have guards against accidental duplicate titles; however, if the users try to work-around that by adding punctuation and such, then they’re abusing the system.

As an admin you have the ability to give users warnings if they keep doing that.

Going back to your question

> [@RozvM](#):
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> Instead of displaying the _Title has already been used_ message is it possible to merge the new topic into the matching (existing) one?

no, there isn’t anything like that in a default Discourse install.

If you really want this, you’d need a custom plugin. You can create a topic in the #Marketplace category if you want to hire one of our community freelance developers to create that plugin for you or you can have a look at our [plugin guides](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/howto/devs/plugins) if you want to do it yourself

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