编辑时更改“in reply to”

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Sometimes users accidentally reply to the wrong post. When that happens I often see them awkwardly apologize to the person they accidentally replied to, or delete their post just to recreate it replying to the correct person. I think it would be really helpful if, when editing a post, there was an easy way to change the “in reply to” post.

Here’s one possible approach:
When you’re in the middle of editing a post, you can click a reply icon to another post. Right now this either empties the contents of the editor (if you’ve made no changes so far), or prompts you to see if you want to abandon your edit (if you’ve already made changes). Perhaps somewhere in that workflow it could ask you if you want to redirect your post to be in reply to the post you just hit the reply button for.

Another option might be to have something in the editor itself, similar to the advanced reply options when creating a new post. But I’m not really sure how you’d select the new post you want the reply to be for in that case.

Anyway, I think this would be really useful (especially for newer members) if a good workflow can be figured out.

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It is possible to change this, but not after the post is submitted.

While editing (but, again, before the post is submitted), press the reply button on a different post, and the reply will change to target that post.

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Right, I understand that. I’m suggesting adding a way to do this when editing a previously submitted post.

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Unlikely to happen; a lot of tricky engineering work for a rare and edge case.

Plus, I think users should be penalized for not getting replies right, and do it over the right way so they can learn how to reply intentionally and be consistent in the future. So even if we could do this, philosophically I don’t agree with it, as it is enabling bad behavior.

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（我最初在其他地方发布了此内容）：

我刚遇到这个问题。用户显然想回复某个特定帖子，但却回复了整个主题。该回复需要先前帖子的上下文才能理解。如果能让管理员以某种方式“重新定位”该回复就好了。

我理解 Jeff 的哲学立场（“这会助长不良行为”）。但我认为，有时为了主题的利益，管理员可能希望快速修复一些问题，并在事后与用户沟通。

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我不明白。这种情况每天都会发生，就连这里的团队成员也会如此，但没有人会介意。反正介意也没用，因为大家都知道无能为力。

回复应该针对主题还是帖子，这一点并不十分清楚。所以，这比仅仅是教育和惩罚要复杂得多。

我们该如何惩罚一个用户误用了回复按钮？公开羞辱还是禁言？当用户误用了错误的分类或标签时，我们并不会进行任何惩罚。我们只是纠正它，仅此而已，就像平常的周二一样。但这种情况我们无法在合适的时候纠正。

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