# 为什么“thread”一词在 Meta 上不被允许？

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**Created:** [2018 年3 月 1 日 19:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156 "2018-03-01T19:24:50Z")\
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作者： ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
发布日期： [2018 年3 月 28 日 09:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156/25 "2018-03-28T09:16:21Z")

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> [@dizzit](#):
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> “thr34d” (singular) makes a lot more sense to flat forums compared to nested ones.

Good point. Very good point indeed.

> [@dizzit](#):
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> these words are clear:
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> Category  
> thr34d  
> Comment

You could add “Reply” to that list, which is the term discourse uses for “comments”. Indeed, “reply” is probably even a slight bit less ambiguous because discourse also has comments (when some replies in topic are displayed under a blog post).

> [@dizzit](#):
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> These words are ambiguous:
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> Topic - could be a category or thr34d  
> Post - could be a thr34d, OP post, or any of the replies - not to mention things outside a forum like blog posts on the same website

I wouldn’t say “post” is ambiguous (it’s pretty clear what a post is and what isn’t), rather: it is _broader_ than, e.g. “reply”. But that is a good thing because it’s useful to have a term that includes both OPs and replies.

So what really remains as a point of contestation is the term topic and I don’t think it is really _that_ ambiguous, especially when the forun also uses the term category, which makes it pretty clear that topic _doesn’t_ mean category. So it means thr34d. Problem solved.

Besides, you have to admit that as much as “thr34d” is an established term in the online world, “topic” is clearly less technical and more common sensical, no? Just think of a person who has _not_ spent 19 years working with forums when they look the button “New Topic” vs “New thr34d”.

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