Do your forum merge posts if a user comments again after he had the last comment?

[Min George]

There are some forums that merge the posts of users if another user doesn't comment and the first user comments again. Other sites allow those two comments to be stand alone posts.

Does this posts merging imply on your forum? Why do you implement it on your forum?

 

[Cpvr]

This is a case of an add on being used that automatically merges a user’s post if it’s a duplicate post.

 

[Laurentta]

I don't have a forum of my own yet but most of the forums i know of have this feature.

 

[Nomad]

I don't have that add on installed on my forum, I do not auto merge posts of the users if they reply consecutively on the same post

 

[eLdavis]

These feature is pretty common on most forums, especially in paid to post forums. I guess it is also another way to prevent misuse or cheating the system.

 

[Fidelia]

I have seen only very few forums that don't have auto merge for same user commenting consecutively. I think only BMF as a paid to post forum doesn't have that feature.

 

[Augusta]

Yeah a lot of forums i work with do this. I don't fancy it. I think they need to stop doing this even on this forum

 

[Cpvr]

Yeah a lot of forums i work with do this. I don't fancy it. I think they need to stop doing this even on this forum

It auto mergers duplicate posts that are posted seconds after each other as it creates extra database entries. It’s a good thing to keep the database usage low depending on the server size.