# 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 augustus 2015 om 11:09 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 augustus 2015 om 12:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-post-specific-reply-indicator-into-the-editor/31899/8 "2015-08-08T12:11:53Z")

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Perhaps, but if you quote both people explicitly in the post – which we encourage – it should be quite clear.

The case of clicking the reply button on a particular post and then selectively quoting _just one other person_ in your reply seems rather cherry picked to me. That’s quite unusual.

I think the major loss would be that every single reply would suddenly have this weird metadata shoved into the body, when the reality is that **95% of replies are to a single person** – or to nobody at all, because they are replying to the topic in general.

You’re proposing a change that would make it _worse_ for the 95% to make the 5% case better. That doesn’t wash.

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