Split & Merge Topics

I'd second this. It would be nice to have a "Moderate Topic" feature similar to the "Moderate Forum" one ...

Yet you manually did it when you split off the discussion about PunBB without <table>s from the PunBB 1.1 Impressions topic. You even forgot to change the name of the topic author. Wouldn't it be easier to have this done automatically? I'd find it easier to justify removing spam and off topic posts from topics if I could point to another section called "Junk" for example and say, "they're still here ..."

For discussions, I can understand that -- but what about a Help forum, where you want users to have a clear idea of how to solve any specific problem, yet one problem transforms to another problem, mid-thread. How would anyone else find out about the second problem? The easiest way would be to split the thread and link the two together: then if someone has a problem and needs to look up the second thread they can do so. It just keeps things clean and organized.

and to further complicate it you can have a bunch of messages, that belong to the first thread nestled into the later part of the thread ...

Closed, sticky FAQ threads usually does the trick for help forums ... where one just cut and paste some and edit the first post all the time ...

We had it in the previous software we were using, and while I admit it wasn't used all that much, it was nice to have when we did need it.

I use a lot the merge feature in Invision 2.0 and it's really useful to clean useless posts.

Would be great to have it in PunBB

Another solution would be to be able to modify the author and the date of a post.

Are you talking about this one ?
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4374

When a mod is working fine, is it included in the next version of PunBB ?

I'd really, really, really like to have this functionality. I modified an ealier ver of Pun to do this but lost the mod when I upgraded to 1.2.7. Rickard, if you don't want to make a standard offering, what about building an Admin plugin?