Actually, yes we can combine or split threads but we wont.
Heres why:

The rules clearly state that users should search before they open up a new thread. This is because we dont want to have a discussion about the same thing scattered along multiple threads in multiple forums. If someone does open a thread that belongs to an existing one we close it because they should have read the rules first and more importantly, if we do all that work searching the right thread for it, combining the new thread as a post to the old thread, what will they learn from it? Exactly.. Nothing.
We're not garbagemen here.. we dont mind cleaning up a thread once in a while.. but you cant ask us to do more.

We close it and ask them to read the rules.. we sometimes even give them a link to the proper thread.. if we have the time to do.

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