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Escondido's Moral Minority
Ditto and Amen to LPR, HonestGovernment, Mutt, and BigBiz. Oh, and again, great big thanks to Dorian for this excellent story, you're the best!!— April 28, 2010 8:01 p.m.
I Want William Shatner
What a cool thing if Shatner becomes governor-general!!!!— April 28, 2010 7:32 p.m.
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It seems to me that ANYTHING can be posted on the Interwebs and called a post: A news article, a story, an entry to a blog. Post is a generic term. Calling something a post makes no distinctions, or conversely, makes distinctions where perhaps it would be desirable not to make a distinction. So, sure, you can call anything a post, you can call a news article a post, you can call an entry posted to a blog a post, you can call a comment attached to that entry a post. News articles are closed reportage of facts and events, any comments attached will probably not change those factgs and events. The Reader does not publish a whole lot of news articles, they mainly publish stories, opinion pieces, and entries to blogs. I prefer the UK's use of the term thread when it is applied to these sort of open discussion threads, because it seems to me that the adds are all expanding on or adding to the original thought so that the discussion evolves as it goes on and becomes a chain of thoughts and opinions. However since jayallen has made an issue of it as what people who speak English in America insist is proper, I will refer to blog entries as posts, comments as threads. Wouldn't want to be out of conformance.— April 28, 2010 7:15 p.m.
Come Hither Lil Poetess
nan, turning and burning!!! One hot poem!!!— April 28, 2010 2:54 p.m.
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So glad you realize I never needed your permission to refer to threads as threads. Apology accepted.— April 28, 2010 2:36 p.m.
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However, if I can think of any illogical analogies to use, I will be back to add them to this THREAD. :)— April 28, 2010 11:38 a.m.
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Most people can intuit the logic behind the variations. On some sites, people are generally adding comments to news articles that have been posted, on other sites there are forums where people can start their own discussion threads, and people can add to the threads. The Reader website doesn't do news, just stories and discussion threads and entries added to blogs. I think that thread is the best term for these sort of discussion. However I respect whatever the person posting wants to call what they are referring to in whatever way they want to refer to it as; I accept that this is sometimes confusing because there are differences, still I go with the flow. I don't think one size fits all, I do believe most people tend to fall into habits, many of them culturally based, early and stay with what is most comfortable for them. Sure, it irritates me that some people call screen names avatars, or that the Reader refers to what you call posts and I call threads as blogs, and the neighborhood blog contest winner as the blog winner. But do I correct them? Better things to do with my life.— April 28, 2010 11:05 a.m.
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I've spoken of a private game site where I played Scrabble. Members joined and played from all over the world, Britain, and all countries associated with the former British Empire, many European countries, many African countries, many Middle Eastern countries, North America, South America, the Phillipines. English wasn't the only language "spoken" there, many members conversed in French, German, Welsh, Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish, and other languages, as I recall. And there were variations among the English-speaking population, say as between Americans and British and Australian. There was a forum which was broken into topics, discussions on the forum added under the various topics were called threads. I noticed that on other forums where nearly everyone calls what they want to call what's posted whatever they want to call it, but where there are UK members or posters, thread is the term that is most commonly used to refer to anything posted for discussion, whether attached to an article, a story, or a blog entry. My own logic and observation tells me that there is a difference between news articles, and stories, and what is posted to a blog. Content in the blogs I would refer to as entries, since, most commonly, independent bloggers add to their blogs as if they are adding entries to a personal journal or log: "blog" is the term for web log. I tend not to use the term posts for blog entries, because anyone can post anything on the Interwebs, and post doesn't make a/that distinction. On most sites where comments are added to news articles, these are, to my mind, comments. On forums or blogs where independent content or entries are posted and comments added to those entries, the entries are often referred to as discussions or discussion threads. Very commonly, open discussion topics are referred to as threads, especially when attached to stories or blog entries, my guess is because the author is sharing thoughts and others add their thoughts, therefore it is all a part of a longwinding thought, or thread of thoughts, hence the term thread. I've noted that in the UK, there are other variations on what people call the posts added to a thread, but they are most commonly called adds. (cont.)— April 28, 2010 11:03 a.m.
I Want William Shatner
LOLOLOL!!! Aww SurfPuppy, you're cute as a button, too! Or at least your avatar is!! ;)— April 28, 2010 9:45 a.m.
Fresh Horses
From Pretty in Pink to Fresh Horses. They never really clicked in either movie.— April 28, 2010 7:58 a.m.