# Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 20, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460 "2015-02-20T19:10:31Z")\
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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:** [February 1, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460/12 "2019-02-01T01:58:06Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Even if we changed the date of the post, it’d still be out of order in absolute ID, which I suspect would be a serious problem.

We always order on post number, absolute id does not matter, technically we can re-sequence a topic for cases like this, it is a pretty expensive operation on large topics but technically can be done.

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