# Comment / indirect reply

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/comment-indirect-reply/112340
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comment-indirect-reply/112340 "2019-03-22T15:38:39Z")
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### Author: ![neborion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neborion/32/180352_2.png) [@neborion](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neborion)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comment-indirect-reply/112340/3 "2020-05-14T00:46:23Z")

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Indeed, these ways of doing things can help meet some of @ConorSheehan1 needs.  
Nevertheless I would like to testify my need that there is also this “Comment” feature that ConorSheehan1 describes: A reply that is added under a message but does not add to the main thread.

I will study the proposal of @angus who proposes this plugin :

> [@Question Answer Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032):
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> mega This plugin is now retired in favour of the official [Discourse Post Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808) plugin Question Answer plugin that allows you to create topics in a similar QA style used by Stack Overflow. [page_facing_up Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-question-answer)[desktop_computer See an example](https://try.thepavilion.io/c/qa/)[raising_hand_woman Request a feature](https://thepavilion.io/w/feature-request)[bug Report a bug](https://thepavilion.io/w/bug-report)Of note memoUp-votes, but no down-votes (yet) The first post of the topic cannot be voted on (yet). Adding this would raise some …

Do you know other people who express a similar need? Similar topics? Do you have any advice on how to search or work on the existence of this feature?

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