Promote to Article problem

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kind of makes sense I guess, I dont suppose you know of a way around it then? At present I am having to create a new article duplicating the content in order to keep the thread in my forum block widget but that obviously creates two sets of content and seperate comments.

I did used to run the advanced forum statistics mod and that would continue to show the original thread even after promotion so I guess theres a way somehow, just maybe not an easy one!