David

Yes, we could REALLY use a smartly designed feature request merge functionality. One that would allow you to combine the original requests, the comment threads, and the vote totals. It would obviously take some manual work to merge the comment threads in an intelligible way. 

Here's one simple way of doing it. It's not pretty, but it would allow us to keep our feature request forum much more compact.

Before Merge

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Request1

Comment1a

Comment1b

Comment1c

etc...

5 votes

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Request 2

Comment2a

Comment2b

Comment2c

etc...

7 votes

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After Merge:

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Request1

Comment1a

Comment1b

Comment1c

Request2

Comment2a

Comment2b

Comment2c

12 votes

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