Terminology: topics vs threads

[tophee (Christoph)]

@david

(^^Onebox is not working because I had to remove the word t h r e a d from the URL

Haha, there is a way:

Why is the word "thread" not allowed on Meta?

Why is the word, “threa.d” not allowed? I’m curious. Just tried to use it in a private message. And, lol the F bomb just auto corrected into a PM I was writing. Oops.

Now what do you say?

@BlackKnob

why is “t h r e a d” a banned word?

I’d say this one is the crucial post:

@codinghorror

This is also a bit of a dogfooding experiment, not a lifelong policy to be forever engraved in a stone monument on a mountaintop.