# Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-creating-new-topic-from-linked-post/227866
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-creating-new-topic-from-linked-post/227866 "2022-05-23T16:51:34Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-creating-new-topic-from-linked-post/227866/2 "2022-05-24T04:38:20Z")

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I am putting this in UX, it is working as designed but I get the complaints about oddness.

I wonder if the long term solution here is just to remove:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/1/1/0116be0e2a44587da018bf0fc4824339ad1ffbd2.png)

Cause this use case is very odd and confusing to explain (also it makes drafts super confusing)… plus this works just fine:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/0/3/c03b9c263108d068b7566b284b114a6e77e18e27.png)

@awesomerobot / @j.jaffeux thoughts?

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