# Highlighting the reply as linked topic functionality
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569 "2023-08-25T02:03:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@westes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/westes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569/22 "2025-12-17T19:49:47Z")
Just wanted to add to this discussion: I spent 20 minutes looking for “Reply as a linked topic” and never found it. It was only because of this thread that I located it.
If you want a feature to be used, you make it visible to your users. Having a non-default option to reply as a linked topic should be part of the Reply UI, visible to all on every reply.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569/23 "2025-12-17T20:45:48Z")
Oof, I do see a lot of those “No!” decisions in many support forums… 😓
To some degree, it may always come down to more experienced folks and staff tidying things up.
I wonder if the “reply as linked topic” option could be made more obvious, as in Linca’s suggestion above, but only at a designated trust level. It might just confuse the average drive-by help-seeker – but if it appeared for, say, TL2 users, they might see the utility and know when to use it.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569/24 "2025-12-17T20:53:05Z")
I’m physically recoiling at _all_ those AI-generated titles. They’re so… AI. I’d assume the content behind any of those headlines would be slop as well. Please, powers that be, reserve titling as an expression of humanity.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-the-reply-as-linked-topic-functionality/276569/25 "2025-12-17T22:04:27Z")
> [@ToddZ](#):
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> I’m physically recoiling at _all_ those AI-generated titles.
Another example of how linked topics could be used to allow for the natural flow of conversation.
I totally agree about the AI generated titles. What seemed acceptable to me in 2023 now triggers a visceral reaction. I think that’s a fairly common reaction to LLM generated text.
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