# Transfer likes when moving a new topic into an existing one
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [5월 14, 2016, 11:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234 "2016-05-14T11:20:37Z")
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2016, 11:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/1 "2016-05-14T11:20:37Z")
I just noticed that when moving a _topic_ (not a reply) into another topic that already existed, the moved topic will lose its likes. Here’s an actual example of a [topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-everything-at-once/44126) that was [merged into an existing one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docker-manager-upgrade-all/33808/6).
This happens because when we merge a topic into another one, we don’t actually _move_ that topic, instead we close it and make a duplicate of it in the other topic.
This inadvertently strips the topic of its likes. Could we:
- migrate the likes from the “moved” topic to the new post, and
- remove the likes from the “moved” topic?
I realise this is more complicated than moving replies, but since moved replies do retain their likes, there’s an unexpected inconsistency here.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2016, 12:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/2 "2016-05-14T12:22:34Z")
FYI, this was noted back in Nov '14, but may have been missed in the noise
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-first-post-to-a-different-topic-doesnt-actually-move-the-post-it-copies-it/15321/19?u=cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-first-post-to-a-different-topic-doesnt-actually-move-the-post-it-copies-it/15321/19)
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### Author:  [@deivid-rodriguez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/deivid-rodriguez)
#### Post date: [2월 10, 2017, 4:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/3 "2017-02-10T16:57:49Z")
I’ve been working on this today and created a PR: [Copy actions when moving first post by deivid-rodriguez · Pull Request #4701 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4701).
I just now found out that my approach is different from the approach proposed here. Here it is proposed that the likes are moved, I copied them instead.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [4월 6, 2017, 4:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/4 "2017-04-06T04:26:32Z")
Hi @deivid-rodriguez, sorry for the late review here. I just merged your PR in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/934bff43d9c69820b60879931fd40890f290a59e](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/934bff43d9c69820b60879931fd40890f290a59e)
with some minor tweaks. Thank you for the great work 👍
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [4월 9, 2017, 8:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/5 "2017-04-09T08:26:33Z")
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [10월 29, 2018, 9:01오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/6 "2018-10-29T09:01:52Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10월 29, 2018, 3:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transfer-likes-when-moving-a-new-topic-into-an-existing-one/44234/7 "2018-10-29T15:20:38Z")
So this is specific to merging two topics? And we are taking about the first post of one topic being merged into another topic, _that_ first post loses its likes in the target topic?