# Require users to "Reply as Linked Topic"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-users-to-reply-as-linked-topic/145993
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-users-to-reply-as-linked-topic/145993 "2020-03-28T23:49:44Z")
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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: [March 29, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-users-to-reply-as-linked-topic/145993/3 "2020-03-29T03:01:18Z")

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> [@jord8on](#):
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> I supposed that we would need to CLOSE the topic

Correct, and…

> [@maiki](#):
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> A small aside at the top of the rule-book explaining how to quote and reply as a linked topic, including small images to demonstrate.

The above is excellent advice.

In addition to that, we did add an [automatically delete all replies after x days](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-delete-replies-after-n-days/128759) setting but I’m not sure that’s what you are looking for here.

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