Is there a way to "insert" a post into a discussion?

[Sujan (Jan P.)]

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?

[HAWK]

Not that I’m aware of, no.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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.

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

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

Which should be suitable for once-off operations. What it looks like, for posterity:

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

@pfaffman

I believe that posts are pulled from the database in ID order

They’re actually ordered based on the post_number

[HAWK]

Good hack @supermathie – I hadn’t thought of that.