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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [3월 1, 2018, 7:24오후 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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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 2, 2018, 9:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156/6 "2018-03-02T21:37:58Z")

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Instead of freaking out here, and as a programmer being denied that word does annoy me a lot, think about it like this

We are property dog fooding a feature that needed lots of refinement

I agree entirely that people need to be educated about terminology in discourse, this is the atomic route, over the next few weeks months we will have less atomic ways

Everyone wins

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