Currently, children ideas that are merged into a collection will be removed from the public forum. The collection would be there but the ideas will go away. Only users who have previously engaged with the children ideas (i.e. voted, commented, followed) would be able to see a link to the original children idea within the collection.

It will be great to have the links to the children ideas visible to all the users (not just to the users who have engaged with the children ideas). This will provide users the full visibility of what similar ideas have been merged into the collection and see the details of the original children idea post.