This would only be available to Scratchers, and next to the “Close Topic” button would be a “Merge Topic with …” button that appears when the post gets 20 replies, and it would only be available in Suggestions, and TIPaC, maybe even the Other Languages forum for languages not listed above. In order for a topic to be merged, you must have the link of said duplicate, and the topics must have similar key words, e.g. "Add Colour support for [color] tags“ would be able to merge with ”Color or Colour? Complete Support so far!"
(Yes, I still haven't forgotten that, so I used it as an example).
Any feedback on the suggestion? Any suggestions for the suggestion? Say so down below.

What is merge?

1. Stop asking silly questions please
2. You better not be post farming.

It's easy to report a topic to be merged, and this could easily be abused. For example: you make a bad suggestion about color pickers, someone comments “I don't think this is a good suggestion” on it, then you merge it with a good suggestion about color pickers.

What if someone merged their topic with a totally unrelated one?

mtech22 wrote:

What if someone merged their topic with a totally unrelated one?

The OP said the topics would need to have similar keywords, but this isn't reliable.

GachaN0nsense wrote:

1. Stop asking silly questions please
2. You better not be post farming.

1. That's a perfectly valid question what
2. Asking a perfectly valid question isn't post farming what

This is an interesting idea. I think the button would say “Request to Merge” and then you choose a topic. Then the owner of that topic would receive the request and either accept or decline it, and then they would be merged, without a mod having to step in.

But this has some problems, like a person could get spammed requests, and even if there's a limit for number of merges, it could be from different people. But that's really just like being spammed studio invites. I just feel like two topics shouldn't get merged without either both OP's approval and/or the mods doing it.

I support, even though the details still need to be worked out.

GachaN0nsense wrote:

1. Stop asking silly questions please
2. You better not be post farming.

Idk what ur on about

What is merge? I've said this before but this answer didn't help me too much?

GachaN0nsense wrote:

1. Stop asking silly questions please
2. You better not be post farming.

But found this defending answer to his post!

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

GachaN0nsense wrote:

1. Stop asking silly questions please
2. You better not be post farming.

1. That's a perfectly valid question what
2. Asking a perfectly valid question isn't post farming what

Thank you, Mr_PenguinAlex!

NanoPIex wrote:

What is merge? I've said this before but this answer didn't help me too much?

A topic can be merged with another one by a moderator, which moves all posts to the other topic and deletes the merged one.

Maximouse wrote:

NanoPIex wrote:

What is merge? I've said this before but this answer didn't help me too much?

A topic can be merged with another one by a moderator, which moves all posts to the other topic and deletes the merged one.

Oh thank you!

Support if new scratchers can't do this because they can merge topics that have nothing in common. And also, less work for the mods!

IndianRuby718 wrote:

This is an interesting idea. I think the button would say “Request to Merge” and then you choose a topic. Then the owner of that topic would receive the request and either accept or decline it, and then they would be merged, without a mod having to step in.

But this has some problems, like a person could get spammed requests, and even if there's a limit for number of merges, it could be from different people. But that's really just like being spammed studio invites. I just feel like two topics shouldn't get merged without either both OP's approval and/or the mods doing it.

I support, even though the details still need to be worked out.

It also wouldn't work if the OP of the original is inactive. I agree with the fact people could merge unrelated topics by either being confused or a troll. Also, sometimes people finde dupes which aren't actually a dupe but if the topics are already merged then it would be hard to fix. I'm not completely sure on the way merging works but I'm not sure if they would have to create new code for non-admins to do this.

IndianRuby718 wrote:

This is an interesting idea. I think the button would say “Request to Merge” and then you choose a topic. Then the owner of that topic would receive the request and either accept or decline it, and then they would be merged, without a mod having to step in.

But this has some problems, like a person could get spammed requests, and even if there's a limit for number of merges, it could be from different people. But that's really just like being spammed studio invites. I just feel like two topics shouldn't get merged without either both OP's approval and/or the mods doing it.

I support, even though the details still need to be worked out.

Title wrote“your own topic”

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

Ihatr wrote:

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

What if new scracthers couldn't?

NanoPIex wrote:

Ihatr wrote:

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

What if new scracthers couldn't?

I know about that, and that doesn’t prevent abuse coming from a Scratcher

What if a Scratcher thinks their topic needs to be merged with a certain one, merged it, but then realizes it should be merged with another one? That’s still a valid problem.

NanoPIex wrote:

Ihatr wrote:

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

What if new scracthers couldn't?

There are still Scratchers who are clueless or have malintent and new Scratchers who are clever and trying to be helpful

NanoPIex wrote:

Ihatr wrote:

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

What if new scracthers couldn't?

Already stated in the op:

GachaN0nsense wrote:

This would only be available to Scratchers

NanoPIex wrote:

IndianRuby718 wrote:

-snip-

Title wrote“your own topic”

Again, read the op

pandacorn_owl wrote:

NanoPIex wrote:

Ihatr wrote:

I feel that this feature would be heavily abused by merging topics that have no relation to one another, forcing the mods to pick out all the merged posts and repair the old topic, something that would just be really annoying.

I think that contacting the moderators through the use of the report button if good enough.

What if new scracthers couldn't?

There are still Scratchers who are clueless or have mal intent and new Scratchers who are clever and trying to be helpful

Did you just call all new scratchers clueless? What if @griffpatch made a new account for some reason?