Help on thread merging

[thehawkVB]

Good morning.

I would like your help to understand how can I implement a change to the way threads are merged together. My problem is that I don't want the posts to be sorted by date after I merge but want ALL posts from the second to thread to appear at the very bottom of the first one, the destination one.

Now of course it could be done by changing the date/time of the posts during the merging process like for example if I merge thread B into thread A at midnight, all posts of thread B will start at midnight + 2 minutes, midnight + 4 minutes and so on, but this would still cause a problem in case thread B has a lot of posts as I may end up with the last post's time set at 03:05 with someone posting a post at 02:05.

Any idea how I can achieve what I want or I'm asking for something impossible to achieve?

Thank you.