# Making posts into a reply (or vice-versa)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-posts-into-a-reply-or-vice-versa/190815
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 18, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-posts-into-a-reply-or-vice-versa/190815 "2021-05-18T15:57:57Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-posts-into-a-reply-or-vice-versa/190815/4 "2024-10-04T05:47:26Z")

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I think there is a #Contribute > Feature topic

> [@Change "in reply to" when editing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-in-reply-to-when-editing/128953):
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> 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

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