Originally Posted by
Sagy
However, in cases when the older thread is a "mega thread" there is a good reason to wait for at least week before merging. Maybe the right answer is not to merged or to merged after the discussion has slowed down.
In a busy forum, it's difficult to keep track of all these threads for a week. If the software provided a "merge after specified time delay" feature, I'm confident that moderators would use it this way. However the current software has no such capability. I believe it's on the wish list, but I don't expect to see it added.
In the meantime, I suggest the following work-around. The poster of any question on a mega-thread topic promises in the OP that he himself will alert the moderator in one week to merge his thread. As a moderator, I would definitely honor a request to delay merging if the poster promised to alert me a week later. That way it's easy to handle, provided that the OP keeps his promise.