I dunno bro, sometimes there is a bit too much merging, it's not like the site has hundreds of irrelevant posts on the front page.
It seems like the second I've posted something recently it seems to get merged into another post. Sometimes it is relevant, this time I don't understand why the Guardian's article on the world cup has to be merged into an article about "June 25th Iran v Portugal information updates etc..."
by this logic we could merge almost anything in the front page into another thread, albeit loosely.
I don't post needlessly, I don't think this trigger-happy merging and moving of posts is healthy for the forum. Happy if you want to move this to general forum to discuss further.... We've got 15-20 people posting regular in this forum now, lets keep spirits high.