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Merged ideas should redirect to the ideas into which they were merged!

590 points posted to IdeaStorm by winoffice Mar 23

Currently if I post an idea and it gets merged, I usually have no idea what idea it got merged into. What if someone follows a link to an idea of mine, only to see "Article not found" because it was merged? People should be able to know whether the idea was just deleted or merged instead, and if so into what idea. Also I might want to check if my idea was really a duplicate of the idea into which it got merged, or if not, which might mean that I might repost it.

At the very least revise the "Article not found" for such ideas to "Article was a duplicate of (such and such idea; do not forget to provide the link) and thus was merged into it."

phubert
Mar 24		 IOW, Keep the LINK, but make it a redirect to the earlier idea (the one merged-into)
tolgsar
Mar 26		 hmmm
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