# Moving posts into an existing topic doesn't keep chronology

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392>\
**Category:** Feature\
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**Created:** [2014年十月21日 23:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392 "2014-10-21T23:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2014年十月22日 01:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392/4 "2014-10-22T01:37:57Z")

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Why does randomly stitching posts together that were in sequence in their original topic, making them completely out of sequence in the new topic and interspersing them between a bunch of unrelated posts in the new topic.. make sense?

That would destroy locality of replies.

As @riking said it could make sense as an option, but as a default?

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