# Testing Boosts on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 "2026-04-03T09:09:47Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/21 "2026-04-03T14:59:41Z")

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who is going to see the text, and when will they see it? is a person expected to keep revisiting every reply in a topic to see if any new boosts have turned up?

what’s the chance of toxic content appearing in boosts? who will see, who will police?

what’s the chance of a side-conversation happening within boosts?

I very much hope this is optional: it doesn’t seem attractive to me for my forums.

(And if it doesn’t chance the order or promotion of a reply, I think boost is a poor name. Quip seems better, but that’s possibly not a widely enough understood word.)

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