The non-secret to English is a logical pattern of a thought. The secret to a checklist is accuracy, brevity and clarity. If you use 3 different terms to describe the same thing, you disrupt thought. If you disrupt thought, you're defeating the purpose of a checklist because you're suppose to be guiding somebody to accomplish something.
Thread may be a "widely accepted term" but believe it or not, some people don't know what it is. KISS
You kinda did it again with this version. A post is the original post. A reply is a contribution to said post. For example, this sentence: "... including threads in which you've never participated." Why use "threads?" Just use "post."
Copy-and-paste involves the clipboard. I thought we wanted to navigate and upload an image from our drive?
I only read your first paragraph but not the rest.
A post is the original post. A reply is a contribution to said post. For example, this sentence: "... including threads in which you've never participated." Why use "threads?" Just use "post."
I agree with "post' and I agree with "reply". But, "thread" is the post and all of the replies. If I reply to one of your replies, you will receive a "Responses to you" notification because you had replied to the post and/or one or more replies. I'm using "thread" in lieu of "Questions and discussions" (which is what Cox uses) because it's shorter.
(I've written this thing three times now. I keep forgetting to swap windows when I check on wording of the notifications because I'm trying to type and watch the Redskins-Cowboys game at the same time).
If I reply to one of your replies, you will receive a "Responses to you" notification because you had replied to the post and/or one or more replies. I'm using "thread" in lieu of "Questions and discussions" (which is what Cox uses) because it's shorter.
It doesn't matter. It's a wanted notification. It doesn't matter if it's a reply to my post, reply to my reply or somebody's reply to somebody's reply. The details of threads, questions and discussions don't matter because the notifications are in the realm of wanted...vs unwanted.
