Auto merge duplicates doing more harm than good

[Revan]

Originally Posted by JumpD

Auto merge is pretty much why I won't seek any info on the inner workings of vBulletin at this site. It is freekin anoying and makes me just say screwed it and abandon the thread. I pretty much only post in the hack forums now. It's one thing when people treat you poorly. But when a bot spits in your face, that's a whole other problem for me.

Congratulations. I must say I have never in my entire life read a more ridiculous post. What that post can be boiled down to is "I don't like the auto merge because a bot edits my post." Wtf? If you are going to make a fool out of yourself like this, at least post a REASON, like the poster above you. Not saying his point is any more valid, but at least he TRIED.

Originally Posted by timetunnel

Hello.

I'm new to this 'automerge' feature.

I created a thread asking for help. Someone responded with good suggestions, yet I didn't totally understand how to implement them. I stated this in my reply to that person.

Approx. 22 hrs later, I had another idea that I wanted to present that didn't involve creating another table as the responder suggested in one of his/her suggestions. I had this idea before that person or another responded.

Because of automerge, they nor anyone else will probably respond...wow, what a shame...

This is a disappointing... :disappointed:

One word for you mate: Bullsh*t.
If that someone didn't respond, odds are he didn't read your reply in the first place. Or perhaps you can prove that he *did* read it? Hm? Didn't think so.