# How to know if a post is reply to the topic in general or to the post right above it?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [14 Agosto, 2016 06:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-know-if-a-post-is-reply-to-the-topic-in-general-or-to-the-post-right-above-it/48607 "2016-08-14T06:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [14 Agosto, 2016 08:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-know-if-a-post-is-reply-to-the-topic-in-general-or-to-the-post-right-above-it/48607/2 "2016-08-14T08:15:23Z")

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It’s intentional, otherwise the screen is spammed with tons of redundant metadata indicators in a topic.

When there is

- one, and only one reply
- that reply is directly under the post it is replying to

reply metadata is suppressed. If you don’t want this, turn it off in your site settings.

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