Making posts into a reply (or vice-versa)

[FroggyC]

Hello all,

Is there any way of linking two posts together as a reply when the author didn’t bother to? Vice-versa, is there a way of correcting the reply association of a post when the author did it incorrectly?

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

I believe deleting the reply and re-posting it is the only way… I don’t know how often this issue comes up, but it does seem like there could be a better way!

[ToddZ]

I just ran into this. User obviously aimed a reply at a specific post, but replied to the topic. The reply requires the context of the earlier post to make sense. It would be nice to be able to administratively “re-parent” the reply somehow.

[Moin]

I think there is a Feature topic

Change "in reply to" when editing

Sometimes users accidentally reply to the wrong post. When that happens I often see them awkwardly apologize to the person they accidentally replied to, or delete their post just to recreate it replying to the correct person. I think it would be really helpful if, when editing a post, there was an easy way to change the “in reply to” post. Here’s one possible approach: When you’re in the middle of editing a post, you can click a reply icon to another post. Right now this either empties the con…

Maybe you want to add your use case there

[ToddZ]

Thanks, Moin – I chimed in over there.