# Suggestion: Combining short post into one larger post automatically if from same author

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-combining-short-post-into-one-larger-post-automatically-if-from-same-author/83972
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 27, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-combining-short-post-into-one-larger-post-automatically-if-from-same-author/83972 "2018-03-27T14:52:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![mofosyne](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mofosyne/32/91669_2.png) [@mofosyne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mofosyne)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-combining-short-post-into-one-larger-post-automatically-if-from-same-author/83972/1 "2018-03-27T14:52:22Z")

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Take this post as an example [https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/should-there-be-a-limit-on-the-number-of-children-one-person-can-have/1914/43](https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/should-there-be-a-limit-on-the-number-of-children-one-person-can-have/1914/43)

You can see he makes two smaller post in quick succession. Ideally the original author would edit the original post (But there is an edit window you are allowed to edit only in).

I think something like multiple post from the same author should be merged into one post automatically, if it is below a certain size. You can still deliminate with a line saying 4 hours later etc…

But it would reduce visual clutter this way.

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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-combining-short-post-into-one-larger-post-automatically-if-from-same-author/83972/2 "2018-03-27T15:10:34Z")

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Some related prior discussion:

> [@Combining multiple sequential replies from the same poster?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/combining-multiple-sequential-replies-from-the-same-poster/11845):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Real-time updates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-time-updates/5151/14):

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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: [March 27, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-combining-short-post-into-one-larger-post-automatically-if-from-same-author/83972/3 "2018-03-27T21:28:32Z")

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