This
add-on for xenforo answer almost all questions put here, nonetheless, I'll refer to them individually.
I expect this to be complicated to add: one of the reasons
I make multiple posts in a row, is because they don't fit the 64kB post limit. I don't think they can be merged later on, and if they do, I can probably no longer edit the post.
Well then merge only if combined data turns out to be within limit of 64kb.
If I understand you, you want a feature which automatically merges successive comments. Just like a written code. But I think it will be difficult to be automated because some successive posts may be a post and a quoted post to give a reply which should not be deleted. But if automated, every comments successively by same poster would be deleted .
Not sure if i get you correctly but no post would be deleted, they will only be merged.
Hah, I've used probably dozens of various forums and I never saw something like that. It must be some type of modern forum software that does stuff like that.
It's not new. Look at
example 1,
example 2.
However, there's one thing I need to think about:
Will it be considered spam if they reply three times in a row?
Depends how mod perceives content, posts shown in op are merged, sometimes they could be deleted.
Dunno how long gonna mod put-up with consecutive posting tho.
OP when he wants/needs one or two reserved posts right after OP
Exempt thread authors from auto merge.
Updates after 24 hours should be 2 different posts I think.
There are a few forum software I have seen which allows such feature if I'm correct. One of them is Xenforo forum software. This forum software allows merging posts automatically in form of "Double post merged". But I don't think it helps a lot.
Two pros I can think of this feature:
1) Would save mods time from merge reports.
2) Multi-quotes are pain on mobile devices, it's easier to just click quote and reply. This could make mobile users lives bit easier, if implemented.
And yes, I agree with timelimit, would probably do better with less than 24 hrs tho.