My guess is you’re referring to automatic suppression of reply metadata when there is a single reply, and that reply is directly under the thing it is replying to, without quotes. That’s how it works in Discourse, though there is a site setting if you want a lot of metadata noise in replies.
codinghorror
(Jeff Atwood)
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