# Reply to specific post don't display glyph via API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 25, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466 "2018-10-25T15:15:29Z")
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### Author: ![jandres](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jandres/32/130933_2.png) [@jandres](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jandres)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466/1 "2018-10-25T15:15:29Z")

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Hello team  
I’m trying to submit a reponse to an specific post in a topic using the API, but there are something wrong when you see the post on browser. The post response dont show arrow and reply username on post info

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/c/ac940a9185af7863cf9ed19fb05e5515374a3677.png)

The official doc it’s not very clear about how posting a response to an specific post

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Posts%2Fpaths%2F~1posts.json%2Fpost)**

It was reading this post [https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-a-specific-post-via-api/26275](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-a-specific-post-via-api/26275) I realize that we need to put ‘reply\_to\_post\_number’:‘#post number’ argument in payload of response.

Anyway, sending this argument you can really reply to a specific post and get this data via API, but when you go in browser, the post seem be a regular topic response (there are not arrow glyph showing who you respond).

You only can realize there are a response to post when you try to edit the post itself  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/2/9/299b3a086de07d6abefb9a8cfc608f6165cac12d_2_690x89.png)

Thank you for your help

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466/2 "2018-10-25T15:31:38Z")

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Try to disable the

`suppress_reply_directly_above`

site-setting and see if that achieves the result you want.

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### Author: ![jandres](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jandres/32/130933_2.png) [@jandres](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jandres)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466/3 "2018-10-25T15:36:38Z")

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Thank you @Johani 👌

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-specific-post-dont-display-glyph-via-api/100466/4 "2018-10-25T16:01:57Z")

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I assume it worked, so that means there’s presumably nothing wrong with your implementation.

So here’s a little bit of information about that setting:

It only suppresses the in-reply-to UI for posts that are direct replies to other posts.

if you hit the reply button on a post, and there are no posts between your new reply and the post you’re replying to, Discourse will not show this by default

 ![Screenshot%20from%202018-10-25%2023-46-43](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/d/cda47087cd977b3a0e41fb9915a39405b8047059.png)

If you leave the setting on, non-direct replies will still show it, like so

 ![Screenshot%20from%202018-10-25%2023-52-10](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/3/63ea268c67f9a0158ff97a780dbc619bf28bdc8f.png)

So, the first reply to a post won’t show the in-reply-to UI, but consequent replies will.