Recently I’ve been trying tying duplicate posts together by updating the newer post’s title, to match the existing post’s title but with a ‘2’ at the end so that users can see that both topics are discussing the same thing, when they appear in their search results.
For example
This does seem like it’s driving home the point that it’s a duplicate post to the user who posted the topic quite forcefully (especially as they can’t delete the topic themselves) but my guess is it’ll be quite useful for the rest of the community.
Compared to merging one topic into another, it’s pretty ‘light touch’ too.
What does everyone think, is this going too far?