Stopping posts from automatically merging?

[lordofthekevins]

If i make a long enough post it gets mad at me for having too many characters in one post... even though theyre actually multiple posts that get stitiched together because theyre adjacent

 

[Yousef]

If you are constantly facing this show, contract a mod to request a bump, or kindly ask a user here and hopefully they comply! I definitely wouldn’t mind bumping your threads. They’re really cool!

 

[Graw]

I kind of like the merge feature though I wish it didn't have the big 'post merged' banner in the middle. That's almost as bad as seeing a bunch of double posts.

 

[Asian girls lover]

Why tho? They prevent multiple posts form the same user.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

I'd personally have posts not merge and make a new one, if it exceeds a certain amount of time. Say... oh... 2 hours... That seems appropriate. (GoG has 15 minutes, but meh).

Merging posts is great if you are replying to someone, then you see someone else and you reply to them, then you see a third person and reply to them. etc etc.


But if you need say 50k room in order to do a multi-piece post (say a really big review... yes i've had a 40k review before) then sometimes it's easier to pre-allocate the slots. But if posts try to merge on every attempt and the limit is 10k... kinda stuck.

Alternatively, semi-long tutorials/pieces. I did a tutorial on another site and had to do like 12 parts, which then i had the first post as a TOC pointing to each of the other parts. Took like a day to make, and thankfully didn't have anyone interrupt during that time, but just the sheer space or navigation sometimes prompts it.

No i'm not advocating changing the system, just there's exceptions to the norm. (Though having a checkbox of 'don't merge' may solve the problem. Perhaps an option if the previous message is past an amount of time or exceeds say 7k and there may not be room for the new stuff... or a BBCode as the first line [nomerge] or something that is thrown away. Well i'm sure we'll figure it out.)

 

[Yousef]

Not much left to say, thanks for marking a solution, happy to help!

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

There's a timer 1440 minutes (1 day) and it won't merge with last message.
You can bump threads is not forbidden or anything.

I kind of like the merge feature though I wish it didn't have the big 'post merged' banner in the middle. That's almost as bad as seeing a bunch of double posts.

It can be disabled, but it would lead to confusion (i think).