Auto merge back-to-back comments

[Adbitco]

Well it all depends on the context of such post otherwise it can be reported automatically, most times can be liken to be spam so it's better to report all to the mod to delete it immediately than just skipping them.

[libert19]

Another idea: instead of merging 2 separate posts into one post, how about just removing the signature from the first post, and removing the title, username, avatar and empty space from the second post? That negates the drawbacks of merging posts, and takes away the (advertising) benefit of making more than one post.

So instead of this:

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We'd see this something like this:

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This will mess up all kinds of data scraping though

It looks rather messy to me. Also, suggestion has got nothing to do with advertisement matter.

Mods would no longer have to merge the posts themselves. I don't think it's an issue for them since, like I said, they get paid for it.

They could redirect those efforts to spam posts and still get paid.

[Welsh]

For this to happen, we'd need a bump button so that users could bump their threads, and various other things which would break if this was implemented. It's not a big deal to report it, and depending on the context correct it if need be.

Sorry, must have missed that part.
The mobile issue is annoying. The best option I see for that is to quote only selected text. So if you have some text selected the quote button or the "insert quote" from the reply page would add only selected text.

That would mean a fair bit of coding from theymos though and unfortunately I don't see it happening too soon.

You could potentially create a userscript to do this, and then do the usual bypass to get a script manager on mobile browsers. At least, with Firefox. I'm not sure with other browsers. I'd take a lot of work to do it via the forum, as I imagine that would break a lot of things, but a userscript should be fairly simple to type up.

[Pmalek]

They could redirect those efforts to spam posts and still get paid.

Nevertheless, you are trying to fix something that isn't really a big problem in anyone's eyes I think. In my experience, mods handle reports for spam and low-effort posting just fine. If you report something that is definitely against the rules, it gets handled most of the times.