"Thread" or "Topic"

[Bryd0]

This is something that's been in my head recently. It seems that any discussion posted on a forum is called either a thread for a topic so let me ask this... what do you refer it as? For me, I refer them as threads yet most people call them topics.

 

[Crusader]

I use both.

 

[Jazzy]

I call them topics since they are a description of what the discussion is about. When I click on view new content, I look at the topic title to see whether or not it's a topic that interests me or not.

 

[Evil Eye]

I use both.

 

[Raven]

Either, Doesn't make any difference to me, They are both the same thing.

 

[Rapunzel]

Thread. But then I like to sew and I believe we are all threads in the Tapestry of Life.

 

[Kasynlie]

Isn't a 'thread' the name for all the cumulative posts within a discussion about a 'topic'?

 

[Evil Eye]

Isn't a 'thread' the name for all the cumulative posts within a discussion about a 'topic'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

 

[Kasynlie]

http://en.wikipedia....ation_threading

Booyah!!

 

[Geoffrey]

I use both, without really thinking about it. It's just whatever sounds better in the sentence at the time I guess, and so that's what I type.