I have moved a couple answers, split topics etc. in my community. I’ve usually felt the need to explain that and thus posted an answer to the modified post or sent a private message to the author. Sometimes I also didn’t take any action, but wanted to ask the author to do something differently next…

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Falco (Falco) September 15, 2019, 6:23pm 5

This is the textbook use case for Post notices (staff notices)

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