# Ambiguous wording "These are the most popular recent topics"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [June 24, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377 "2016-06-24T00:23:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/1 "2016-06-24T00:23:06Z")
Posting this on request from @erlend_sh š
The most popular recent topics, or the most popular of all time?
The most popular, or the latest?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/2 "2016-06-24T01:23:44Z")
So the bug is that latest is highlighted but top is what is presented, in this case?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/3 "2016-06-24T01:29:20Z")
The correct things are being presented and highlighted, but the wording in the message doesnāt match.
When viewing the most popular posts of āall timeā, the message says they are the most popular ārecentā posts.
When viewing the Latest posts, the message says they are the most popular.
(I concede that this is very unimportant.)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/4 "2016-06-24T10:51:34Z")
So, at least for the Top one, we should just omit the ārecentā part and weāre good, right?
> These are the most popular topics
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/5 "2016-06-24T11:04:32Z")
I am still not really following what is being suggested here? Did users report a problem? Is it really necessary to say
> these are the most popular topics within the specified time frame
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/6 "2016-06-24T20:47:30Z")
Maybe if dates were added to All Time it would help?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/7 "2016-06-26T17:54:18Z")
āWelcome to our community! Here are some popular topics to get you startedā would likely cover off all the bases.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/8 "2016-06-26T17:55:56Z")
Are we sure that isnāt a past version of the wording? š
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ambiguous-wording-these-are-the-most-popular-recent-topics/46377/9 "2016-06-26T17:56:53Z")
Nope, not sure at all!