I don't know why a newly created profile (1 post) is merged with the existing one, instead of being deleted. (when reported for duplicate)
Yesterday a new user created a new topic for Elizabeth Turner (1 post). I reported it for already existing.
The threads got merged resulting in double posts within the old thread. (the 1 post in the newly created thread already existed in the old one)
https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/72803-elizabeth-turner/?do=findComment&comment=4815565 (new <-> duplicate)
https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/72803-elizabeth-turner/?do=findComment&comment=4814163 (old, lit. just 2 posts above)
Original: https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/58147-elizabeth-turner/ cached site ---> https://webcache...elizabeth-turner/
Duplicate: https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/72803-elizabeth-turner/
(duplicate has overwritten the original, original URL got replaced by duplicate one)
But the worst thing about merging those two threads, is that the originally created one got overwritten!
> The profile image, tags, title and following that Jeanmarc initially created/set for her thread when opening it, (July 21, 2015)
got replaced with the ones from the newly created thread, which shouldn't have been created in the first place. (overwritten)
> And the "Following" list got replaced too!
I did not follow the newly created thread but the old one, merging them replaced the old "Following" with the new one,
(meaning I don't follow the old thread anymore... WTF O.o)
resulting in the old thread with many hundred followers (259) having now only one follower! (two after I re-followed today)
(people don't get notified for new posts anymore without knowing it...)
Everyone that was previously following/"subscribed to" the old thread
has to re-follow in order to get notified about new replies...This is bad...really bad.
That overwriting profile image, tags, title and following shouldn't happen, right? (bug!?)
And creating duplicate posts by merging a recently created thread (1 post/created a few min. ago) with the old one to resolve a duplicate thread
is literally trading duplicate for a new duplicate.
This is not supposed to be a rant, I'm just trying to understand why merging (in this case destructive)
is preferred over deleting when there is only 1 post. (created a few min. ago)