# Move only part of a reply (and some other entire replies) to a new topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [14.Август.2015 14:11:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114 "2015-08-14T14:11:03Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [14.Август.2015 14:11:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114/1 "2015-08-14T14:11:03Z")
Not sure if there might be a lof of need for such a feature.
Quite often, in our forum people reply to a previous message in a topic and raise a new topic in the next paragraph of the same reply.
Actually, that’s us who teach users not to write multiple replies but rather use “quote reply” and put everything in a single reply.
Now, if I want to keep one piece of the message in its topic and move another piece of the message (and some of the following replies) in a separate topic, how do I do it - is it possible and if not, is it a planned feature?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [14.Август.2015 18:09:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114/2 "2015-08-14T18:09:00Z")
Not possible, nor planned to allow splitting of a paragraph from a post. Splits are granular at the post level.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [11.Август.2018 07:50:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114/3 "2018-08-11T07:50:03Z")
> [@meglio](#):
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> Quite often, in our forum people reply to a previous message in a topic and raise a new topic in the next paragraph of the same reply.
Yes, I see what you mean, but I agree with @codinghorror that splitting posts is a no go. But let’s look at this more closely: I’d say raising a new topic in a reply isn’t a problem per se. The problem starts when someone _replies_ to that new topic within the old topic. (And I don’t really blame inexperienced users for doing this, as it requires quite some discipline to realize that you need to reply-as-new-topic to one part of the post but can reply-within-topic to another part of the post.)
So if we look at a situation where someone replies to a new topic within the old topic, I think a feasible solution would be to _copy_ to new topic.
Now, it does get a bit more complicated because only the post that _introduced_ the new topic would have to be copied while the replies would need to be moved (also because copying should be kept to an absolute minimum).
If the reply not only replies to the off topic part of the post but _also_ also to the on-topic part, I think we just gotta leave the “mess” as it is and intervene with a reply, asking to please continue the off topic conversation elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)
#### Post date: [30.Апрель.2020 22:46:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114/4 "2020-04-30T22:46:11Z")
Как интересно, что ответы здесь столь противоположны, тогда как более ранние мысли по адресу [Moving only part of a post - #2 by codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-only-part-of-a-post/13284/2?u=wolftune) были гораздо более открытыми.
Я заметил, что на странице [Splitting a message in 2 - #2 by omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/t/splitting-a-message-in-2/110231/2?u=wolftune) есть обходной путь.
Это, безусловно, сложно, но сама идея, на мой взгляд, имеет много достоинств.
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### Author:  [@native-api](https://meta.discourse.org/u/native-api)
#### Post date: [13.Ноябрь.2020 16:28:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-only-part-of-a-reply-and-some-other-entire-replies-to-a-new-topic/32114/5 "2020-11-13T16:28:51Z")
Я согласен, что перемещение частей сообщений внесло бы слишком много усложнений в процесс разделения темы.
Процесс должен заключаться в разделении сообщений на более мелкие сообщения, принадлежащие тем же пользователям — например, как описано на [Splitting a message in 2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/splitting-a-message-in-2/110231) — а затем, при необходимости, перемещении полученных разделённых сообщений в другую тему.