User blog comment:BertH/User rights updates for Forum and Message Wall/@comment-452-20150120134725/@comment-452-20150121142608

Clear as crystal.

If they remove a message once, and I restore it, they will not be able to remove it again - thanks.


 * In brings up quite a few questions about what happens to replies, etc.

This is definitely why "split and merge" are needed hand-in-hand.

While I would be happy with a one-by-one approach, I can see that others wouldn't, so I suggest a "split and merge" mode: When you enter it while viewing a thread, there's a message "Select messages to split into separate thread and press Split" there are checkboxes next to every message, and a Split button at the bottom. Obviously it's an admin/mod-only function.

I haven't actually ever looked into how the source handles the relationship between messages in a Thread, so I probably should do that sometime.