# Is there a way to "insert" a post into a discussion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [2017年十二月14日 16:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051 "2017-12-14T16:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sujan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sujan/32/70979_2.png) [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 16:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/1 "2017-12-14T16:38:25Z")
I want to insert some information into a previous discussion that is getting quite some search engine traffic. I am a moderator and could edit any post in the topic, but I would greatly prefer to be able to insert a post under my username directly after the topic creating post. Is this possible somehow? ---
**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 17:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/2 "2017-12-14T17:06:51Z")
Not that I’m aware of, no. ---
**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 19:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/3 "2017-12-14T19:53:06Z")
I believe that posts are pulled from the database in ID order. So even if you back-date the post, it’ll still appear at the end of the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 20:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/4 "2017-12-14T20:50:16Z")
You can do this with moderation rights by using our ‘move posts’ feature: - move all posts below the first in the original topic to a new, temporary topic - add a new reply to the original topic (so now there is just the topic plus one reply) - move all posts from the temporary topic back to the original topic You end up with e.g.: [https://try.discourse.org/t/hi-im-an-interesting-topic/920?u=michael](https://try.discourse.org/t/hi-im-an-interesting-topic/920?u=michael) Which should be suitable for once-off operations. What it looks like, for posterity: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/a/8a59465d250f67eaf46764b28109e1179fd62b93.png) ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 21:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/5 "2017-12-14T21:55:33Z")
> [@pfaffman](#): > > I believe that posts are pulled from the database in ID order They’re actually ordered based on the `post_number` 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Post date:** [2017年十二月14日 22:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/6 "2017-12-14T22:51:20Z")
Good hack @supermathie – I hadn’t thought of that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [2020年二月16日 08:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/7 "2020-02-16T08:22:32Z")
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [2020年三月17日 08:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-insert-a-post-into-a-discussion/76051/8 "2020-03-17T08:35:32Z")
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