I don t mind I like you you know that e c stands for edit conflict It means that someone wrote a reply to the original statement but someone else wrote their reply faster So the original statement was replied to already but sometimes if not answering a question for help people like to add their reply as well e c is added to indicate that the poster tried to reply but got into an edit conflict when doing so and to indicate that have not just indented their reply in a wrong way and that the reply is not to the other reply but to the original statement I hope that was clear Why