# Moving to a topic should set the first topic's author as the creator

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-a-topic-should-set-the-first-topics-author-as-the-creator/32044
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [13 أغسطس 2015، 12:21ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-a-topic-should-set-the-first-topics-author-as-the-creator/32044 "2015-08-13T00:21:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![pakl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pakl/32/103617_2.png) [@pakl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pakl)
#### Post date: [13 أغسطس 2015، 12:21ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-a-topic-should-set-the-first-topics-author-as-the-creator/32044/1 "2015-08-13T00:21:09Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [After topic moved, topic starter in list is wrong](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-topic-moved-topic-starter-in-list-is-wrong/9041/7):

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> That is as designed at the moment.
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> This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed.

Frankly, this is a terrible design.

Case in point:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/a/1acc940e5aa620e05e7f78df96a970be50370e9e.png) 

Here, it looks like I am announcing a new game and team (which would be quite a big deal for a game dev company). The truth is that I simply split a horrendously long topic of a fan-created game project.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 أغسطس 2015، 12:51ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-a-topic-should-set-the-first-topics-author-as-the-creator/32044/2 "2015-08-13T00:51:04Z")

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Already in our “high priority bug list” 🙂

[https://meta.discourse.org/tags/priority-high](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/priority-high)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [13 أغسطس 2015، 10:01ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-a-topic-should-set-the-first-topics-author-as-the-creator/32044/3 "2015-08-13T10:01:00Z")

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