Selecting replies of replies

[anon21958287]

When selecting posts (using the admin menu in a topic) there is an option to select replies. However, if a post is selected because it is a reply, there’s no way to select its replies other than manually. This is somewhat error prone when extracting an off topic subtopic.

Could we get an extra “Select Replies” button / link / whatever on these automatically selected posts that have replies of their own?

[loopback0 (loopback0 - TDWTF)]

Agreed. This is irritating.
Been meaning to log this one for a while myself.

[anon21958287]

BUMP!

Has anyone given any thought to this?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

We want to do it, but just have not had time to work on it.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

There is a spec topic that covers this – select all posts downstream of this one.

[anon21958287]

And here it is:

Add "select below" and "select above" admin post selection action

It happens a lot that when splitting topics, you more-or-less need to select all posts downstream of a certain post to get a proper split. This is a pain in the ass in the current admin interface: you have to manually walk down all the posts and click them, though “select+replies” helps a bit. the selection UI is crazy slow for reasons I don’t fully understand. Like absurdly slow, 1 second wait after each click. So I suggest we add an “above” and “below” button after “select” to make it easi…

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Closing because we already have the spec, everything in spec is planned.