# How do I remove "Your topic is similar to..."?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815 "2016-02-01T08:26:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/1 "2016-02-01T08:26:28Z")
I would like to remove this as it pops up on the right side of the composer. (On top of Preview section). I am on a lower resolution screen.
Anyway, I could get rid of this completely?
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### Author:  [@ColdSun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ColdSun)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/2 "2016-02-01T08:32:18Z")
> [@Alankrit\_Choudh](#):
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> I would like to remove this as it pops up on the right side of the compose
As a quick solution, you could just add the following as a css addition:
`.similar-topics { display: none !important; }`
**EDIT** by Sam: Do not do this, see my reply at the end of the topic!
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/3 "2016-02-01T08:34:44Z")
Worked. Thanks for quick solution.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/4 "2016-02-01T08:35:53Z")
We really should add a site setting for this, cause its so wasteful to be running an expensive query to calculate information we are not displaying.
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### Author:  [@ColdSun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ColdSun)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/5 "2016-02-01T08:38:22Z")
Oh I most certainly agree. The previously mentioned suggeestion was simply a quick solution to solve his problem. If there are enough forum owners who want this hidden, I’d agree that having it as a site setting is ideal.
I suppose the question is: Are there others who want to hide this? If so, it’s worth adding a site setting for it. If it’s a very rare one-off, then it might not be worth adding an additional setting (I guess I’ll go ahead and coin the term setting-creep since it isn’t really feature creep).
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/7 "2016-02-01T08:40:59Z")
In the meantime, I was reading few other posts related to this. The old method of display was non-intrusive it was above the composer. But the flaw was it being cut short due to `fixed` header.
Currently, the display is well enough, but it is intrusive on top of the composer (preview side). I think it covers the beauty of the way the composer works for a short period time.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/9 "2016-02-01T08:41:44Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-your-topic-is-similar-to/38815/10 "2018-02-05T19:39:53Z")
OK the correct way of disabling this is by increasing `min title similar length` to something impractical.
That way it will never fire cause we bypass it. Hiding from CSS is **not recommended**.