Merging posts should increase the comment count | Voters

Merging posts should increase the comment count

John Dyckhoff

It appears that merging posts does not increase the comment count. Ideally, the count should be increased by the original merged post plus any comments on the merged post.

April 3, 2024

Sarah Hum

Thank you for posting, John Dyckhoff! I have a few more questions for you:

Can you provide an example of a situation where the current comment count after merging posts caused confusion or problems?
How often do you merge posts and what is the average number of comments on the posts you merge?
Are there any other aspects of post merging that you think could be improved?

John Dyckhoff

Hi Sarah Hum,

We are using votes and comments as a proxy for popularity. The confusion comes from merged posts not increasing the count.
Currently (new client), we are using merge to get comments from an existing tool, so we are using it a lot. If we could comment on behalf of a user (I have suggested this), then this would not be so important.
The only other issue we have encountered is 'ghost posts' in the search results when searching for the post to merge. This may also be a function of us being new, importing, and deleting issues!