Guys I’ve just moved someone’s post (because it was related to an earlier post, but the user chose to inappropriately randomly post on an unrelated thread) but Discourse didn’t bring the target topic forward and bump it up the topic list like I think it intuitively should. Should this be improved?
The post has a time stamp, shouldn’t the position of the destination thread be updated according to the moved posts timestamp if the timestamp is newer? Am I missing something?
But it could be recent. Part of the issue is that the author may now not see her post near the top of the topic list. It might move quite far down and thus be ignored. This is a disincentive to move the post as no mod wants to discourage a user or have posts missed.
Yes an edit or an additional post is a workaround but that’s creating noise and is additional effort. If the topic list simply updated according to the time ranking of the moved post no additional steps would be necessary.
Yes but the crucial thing is the user would want readers to take notice of their post and of course people generally only scan the top of the list for new posts. In my example the post disappears into history, making it highly likely it will be ignored by most and this fails to recognise its relative newness.
I’ll use the workarounds for now but do still feel this should be considered as a potential enhancement.
Timestamp of the target topic should be that of the newest post after posts were moved. Posting some garbage and immediately deleting works quite well as a work-around, but takes some additional effort.