It's not new, last time I checked mprep did such merging of post with similar contents
One of his post on merging.
One interesting thing about mprep global moderator is he can merge posts manually or with his script. When using script, maybe there is chance of inaccurate merging.
It was merged by a moderator. Posting twice in a row within 24 hours isn't allowed even in selfmod threads because it unfairly bumps the thread.
The messed up text is
mojibake as a result of charset-mismatch issues, probably caused by a partially-loaded page or weird configuration at the moderator's end. I haven't seen this particular thing happen before, so I'll assume for now that it was a momentary glitch somewhere. I fixed it.
Yeah, my bad. I'm using my own userscript to merge
duplicate consecutive posts. While one of the moderators pointed out that it sometimes glitches with characters from non-english languages, I wasn't able to replicate it and didn't think it'd affect the main altcoin boards (since everything posted there should be in English). Was going to rewrite the script in another language sooner or later anyway so might as well start now.