# Best Practices on reply-by-email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** data-explorer\
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107 "2018-08-31T16:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107/7 "2018-08-31T21:37:06Z")

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It’s quite rare for any site to have a ton of email-only participation. 25 years later, people are pretty darn comfortable with the concept of a web browser 😉

The reality is that email replies capture a small percent of the time people are “on the go” and want to reply but all they have access to is email. It is a convenience feature.

If you turn it off, you turn off convenience – but it’s not _essential to survival_ in my experience. I’d still recommend it though.

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