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Syndol
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I will be adding a maximum message length limit beyond which the post will not be mergedIf thread started is making such a long article, and the length of the article exceeds the length of a message allowed, the thread starter needs to separate the article. If you can make a condition that if length of the first message is above a limit, like 500 chars, the next post will not be merged if the next post's length exceeds a limit.I think we should exclude the thread starter for its consecutive first post. There are two ways:
If for a time after the first posts, the thread started does not make new posts, next posts will be affected by double post merge as normal.
The thread starter's posts will not merged for a time allowed, for example 60 minutes.
The maximum number of characters beyond which the post will not be merged. This includes BB code. Use 0 to disable the limit. Please note that even if the message does not go above this limit, should the newly merged post length end up being over the default length (set in the 'messages' option group), the post will not be merged.
Now, I was going to add a time limit for the exemption of the thread author from the second post but I'm now wondering if this is really necessary when we already have the length limit described above (which is not limited to thread author only)?