# Moving post-specific reply indicator into the editor

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-post-specific-reply-indicator-into-the-editor/31899>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [8 Agosto 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-post-specific-reply-indicator-into-the-editor/31899 "2015-08-08T11:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [8 Agosto 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-post-specific-reply-indicator-into-the-editor/31899/6 "2015-08-08T11:59:29Z")

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I personally find that Flarum feature spectacularly confusing. We already have

1. @name mentions – of a person
2. quotes – of a post

So this would add a third, weirdo hybrid type

1. @person + post\_id (but not quoted!) combo mentions

… with its own arcane syntax. I think you’d end up _confusing_ people even more than they already are – what’s this junk in my reply area, and why it is here, and what does it mean?

At least with a quote you see the other person’s words, and with a name mention you see their name, these things are clear and well-understood, you have a name, you say words to me. But as a combo hybrid it’s just.. a mish-mash of metadata.

If anything we could make the @name mention **pop up that person’s last post in this topic when clicked**. That seems reasonable, it’s not a bad suggestion. So if I said @erlend_sh your last post was crap! you could click that and see your last post in this topic. It’s a reasonable expectation, if you have posted in the topic, anyway. If I am mentioning you I’m _probably_ talking to you about the last thing you posted here.

But I think having it target the person and explicitly the number of their post – without quoting it – is highly bizarre. I don’t know that is something that should be encouraged. **We want people to quote.** Reference a **name**. Reference **specific words**. Don’t make people dig up post numbers which are meaningless.

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