Responding to posts.

[Angrboda]

For what it's worth, I prefer posts be split as well. It creates a better logical separation as to what is being responded to, and to whom. If you automerge a short reply after a reply to a longer one (think Statler Waldorf), nobody reads the second (or third reply). It also makes things clearer if you are posting graphics or videos as separate responses in addition to other textual replies.

I've been on a forum that does split each reply off, and it didn't seem to cause any additional problems. Perhaps they have less spam, or perhaps the idea of the multipost spammer is more boogeyman than reality, I don't know. If you build it, they will come, I suppose.

Regardless, if it's technically problematic, I suppose it's a dead issue.

(ETA: Btw, is it 60 minutes or 120 minutes before it stops automerge? I always thought it was the edit window time.)