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Merge is weird on Microcosm, because it involves a less simple model.
Events are a different thing than conversations, and how do you merge an event into a conversation and what does that mean for the metadata, and vice versa... can a conversation be changed into an event?
Then there are permissions differences. hippy has full permissions but most people don't. If someone creates a forum then they get access to the things within that forum as a moderator of that forum. They could in theory merge things, but can they merge things into things outside of their forum? Could they move things from their forum to somewhere else? Which set of permissions apply... the sending forum or the receiving forum?
These questions were never really resolved by the time Microcosm shut down, and so the moderation controls were never fully finished.
I have fragments of SQL and use different bits at different points in time, and because I'm doing it manually I can look at the permissions and types of things and choose which SQL to run.
In essence... it's done manually with bits of SQL on the server, and hippy doesn't have server admin (not sure he wants it either... it's PostgreSQL on a Linux server and the potential to wipe out whole forums is high).