merging access filters?

[cellio]

A quick search of the help didn't answer my question, so I figured I'd ask my readers before asking DW support (sometime after Pesach, which starts tonight).

We can merge tags, i.e. delete one tag and send all its posts to another tag. I want to do the same thing with a couple access filters; I have more granularity than I need. If I just delete an access filter all its posts become private; that's not what I want. I want to take this group of posts that all have access filter X and assign them to access filter Y instead, so that I can then delete X with no negative effects.

Anybody know of a way to do that?

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[denise]

Saw this go by: Nope, there's no way to do that, alas. Normally here I would send you to make a suggestion, but access filters are really old code that's baked deep into the primordial soup of the site, and I don't actually think it would be possible to implement it. (And it would definitely be the kind of thing that's high-privacy-risk, in that no matter how carefully we designed it, we'd risk somebody clicking the wrong thing and suddenly merging their PeopleWhoHateDenise filter with their PeopleWhoCanNeverKnowWeHateDenise filter, and those are the sort of changes we really hesitate over...)

Chag Sameach, by the way!