# Can we add @usernameofposter automatically when someone replies for a post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 7, 2014, 3:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756 "2014-09-07T15:42:24Z")
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### Author:  [@gingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerman)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 3:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/1 "2014-09-07T15:42:24Z")
I went through the list of posts for a topic. I lost the context until I go through each replies dropdown. Please see the below screenshot.
In the above conversation, @codinghorror has actually replied to riking. I actually cannot say immediately whom he has replied until I go through each reply dropdown for above posts.
My request here - can we add @mention automatically when we hit reply on a post. This help others to understand the context easily without going through individual replies. This is important especially in mobiles.
**Edit1** : I understand there is an img at the far right about who the reply points to. But it didnt help. May be shifting that to the far left helps.
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### Author:  [@lidel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lidel)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 5:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/2 "2014-09-07T17:24:14Z")
I was curious how it would look like so I did two mockups:
**A:** moved current indicator to the first line of a reply:
**B:** the same, but replaced indicator with `@name`
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### Author:  [@gingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerman)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 5:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/3 "2014-09-07T17:33:09Z")
@lidel Awesome to see quick experiments from the community. This is a better way to showcase the solution. Personally I liked **B** as it will be shown in the compose box while typing a reply
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### Author:  [@lidel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lidel)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 5:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/4 "2014-09-07T17:47:39Z")
I agree: if we want to use `@name` it should be ‘hardcoded’ in preview pane, otherwise someone may want to explicitly start a reply with `@name` which will cause ugly duplicate (I’ve seen some people add `@name` in replies for clarity reasons).
I guess we also want to differentiate between _causal mention_s and _direct replies_, so perhaps we could combine A&B:
**C:** B + arrow from A
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 7:21오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/5 "2014-09-07T19:21:53Z")
You are free to override the css on your site to do this, but I don’t see us adopting this as a default.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 7, 2014, 7:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-add-usernameofposter-automatically-when-someone-replies-for-a-post/19756/6 "2014-09-07T19:22:26Z")