The automerging of posts is extremly annoying. If I come back an hour or two later, and have a completly different thought, I want it to be in it's own post, not edited into the previous one. It should time out after 10-15 minuites and let you create a new post.
I find it quite annoying, more than once I've gone back to a thread to add things the next day - and the posts get automerged. I'm not convinced bumping is a major issue, esp with all the new staff, but it's not me you have to convince.
You wouldn't believe how often people will bump a thread, automerging means we can concentrate on issues that are much more approprite. This has come up a few times before but in general seen to be more good than evil.
Can you put coders in a group with no double post merge at least? We often answer questions in multiple posts over a period of time. Not only does the double post merge hide the fact that a new answer has been added to the thread, but it doesn't even send a new post email to those that have subscribed. I've mentioned this before.
Auto-Merge should be disable for all Modification threads. Other than that, I really don't see a reason to disable this feature due to the large amount of times that our bumping rule is abused.
05-26-2006, 11:27 PM
Disable automerging of posts
enjoy it.
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