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@fChk I guess I don't have to tell you as you already know the rationale: double posts within minutes/hours of making them are usually against the forum rules of most forums and this is a tool from myBB to help avoid this from happening.  But I have to agree with you.  Some times there is a good reason for making consecutive posts even in the same time frame, because the discussion calls for it.  This usually happens to quality posters who are really into the discussion of the topic.

I checked and there is/was a time limit.  I've disabled it for now on a temporary experimental basis.  Let's see how it goes.  I can always manually merge double posts if called for - I don't expect many to be made.  However if I see a noticeable spike in double posting, I may need to reinstate the time limit.  If this should happen.  What in your opinion would be a reasonable time limit?

There are many situations where I actually want the auto-merging to take place. Take my VPS 3 review thread as an example. When I reply to several people, I don’t want to end up making several separate consecutive posts within minutes of each other. It’ll just end up becoming spammy.

And merging the posts manually on mobile is, well, a complete pain. 

I was thinking, how about a “post separately” button for those who don’t want their posts to be merged?