# Should "Reply" appear in the right gutter?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [Juin 4, 2016, 1:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338 "2016-06-04T13:07:55Z")\
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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:** [Juin 6, 2016, 8:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338/7 "2016-06-06T20:06:00Z")

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> [@Change right gutter to vertical timeline + topic controls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-right-gutter-to-vertical-timeline-topic-controls/44096/217):
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> The button is a departure from “reading is fundamental”

It isn’t though, because:

1. scroll down
2. read until you discover someone who is Wrong On The Internet™
3. slam the reply button on their post as hard as you can
4. profit

There’s 0.0% difference between that behavior – someone who **stopped reading before the end of the topic and slammed a reply button** – and what we currently have.

To fix _that_, we would need to do things like

- prevent people from submitting their reply until they physically reach the end of the topic (e.g. pop a “sorry, can’t submit until you scroll all the way down” dialog when they press the submit button)
- show actual read time / posts read in the topic next to the user’s name to shame them into reading more
- literally _hide_ all reply buttons until you reach the bottom of the topic

Which of the above do you prefer @sam? Please reply and let me know.

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