# 消息被上方帖子回复
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2019年五月10日 13:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388 "2019-05-10T13:19:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 13:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/1 "2019-05-10T13:19:23Z")
[https://forums.wardragons.com/t/may-8-13-kingdom-wars/94865/146?u=orcafrost](https://forums.wardragons.com/t/may-8-13-kingdom-wars/94865/146?u=orcafrost)
How can a post gets replied by previous post?
Note that the reply is an edited post.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 04:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/2 "2019-05-11T04:03:57Z")
Sorry, I do not understand what you are asking?
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 11:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/3 "2019-05-11T11:17:07Z")
I believe that logically, a post is replied by other posts after it (although quoting previous post is okay.).
However, this post is replied by the one above
> **Post 146**
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Tapping the “down” arrow (the reply) leads to post 139.
Thus, it means that post 139 is a reply to post 146.
> **Post 139**
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Notice that Post 139 is edited, and a quote from Post 146 is added.
My point is, is it intentional?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 11:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/4 "2019-05-11T11:28:31Z")
My _guess_ is you’re referring to automatic suppression of reply metadata when there is a single reply, and that reply is directly under the thing it is replying to, without quotes. That’s how it works in Discourse, though there is a site setting if you want a lot of metadata noise in replies.
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 11:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/5 "2019-05-11T11:59:11Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> that reply is directly under the thing it is replying to
No. Instead, the reply is above the thing it’s replying to.
-edit-
Based on the image, the reply is post 139, replying to post 146
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/6 "2019-05-11T12:12:27Z")
I’ll try to simulate it here.
I’m adding post 1.
This is the original post.
-edit-
There should be a part that I quoted a post below, but somehow got reversed post - delete
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/7 "2019-05-11T12:12:53Z")
I’m replying to the post above by clicking reply button
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 12:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/8 "2019-05-11T12:26:22Z")
> [@OrcaFrost](#):
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> Notice that Post 139 is edited, and a quote from Post 146 is added.
> My point is, is it intentional?
I would imagine so. You can edit a post and quote from any message.
So I think what happened is that a post was written and conversation continued and then the person edited their post quoting from a post that happened after it.
Edit:
> [@OrcaFrost](#):
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> If the edited text can be considered as a reply to the quoted post, I guess it’s a feature then
It’s not really what you would expect someone to do, but they could!
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### Author:  [@OrcaFrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrcaFrost)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 22:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/9 "2019-05-11T22:55:55Z")
If the edited text can be considered as a reply to the quoted post, I guess it’s a feature then…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2019年五月11日 22:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/10 "2019-05-11T22:58:12Z")
So you are referring to _out of order_ replies here? Like someone goes into an old post and edits a quote to a _future_ (downstream) reply into it?
That is possible, but it’s definitely a no-no 😉
It is like they want to invent a time travel machine! 🕰
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2022年九月14日 02:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/11 "2022-09-14T02:20:56Z")
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [2022年九月14日 03:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-gets-replied-by-the-post-above/117388/12 "2022-09-14T03:32:22Z")