Between 2nd May and 9th May 2025
There was a topic about this last May. This is what caused it:
I have an automated bot that detects potentially mergeable posts and I've recently started going through its backlog and merging posts that violate rules 21 and / or 32.
My bot doesn't delete anything - it gives me a list of links and I manually go through and decide which posts should be merged.
And this is what should make this less of a problem now:
While the main reason for merging posts is to reduce the overall size of content posted by the same user whenever possible while maintaining general consistency of the rules, I now see that perhaps I was too overzealous in doing so for old posts. In the future, I'll generally refrain from merging old (as per what would be considered old when reporting a post) posts.
(read the topic for the full context)