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With linear threads on the other hand, once the topic shifts to a new point of discussion, users are: 1) less inclined to make posts to revisit and expand on earlier points of discussion in order to avoid fragmenting the linear conversation similar to what occurs with turn-taking in face-to-face conversations; and/or 2) obligated to make a ...
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social ...
A thread is contained in a forum and may have an associated date that is taken as the date of the last post (options to order threads by other criteria are generally available). When a member posts in a thread, it will jump to the top since it is the latest updated thread. Similarly, other threads will jump in front of it when they receive posts.
Check whether there's already a discussion on the same topic. Duplicate discussions (on a single page, or on multiple pages) are confusing and time-wasting, and may be interpreted as forum shopping. If the subject is a controversial or popular one, consider checking the talk-page archives before opening a new thread.
Usually most active contributors to an article have it watchlisted, which implicitly also places the talk page on their watchlist.Different people check their watchlists with different frequencies, but on any article with a reasonable number of participants, it is a pretty safe bet that a detectable number of people are keeping an eye on the article and its talk page: not exactly in realtime ...
AOL Mail lists your emails together in a single thread, making it easier to follow the flow of the conversation. This feature can help you to quickly locate specific emails and reduce clutter in your inbox. Use the collapse icon or expand icon to view the messages in the conversation thread. Turn conversations on or off
Click the red link to begin a talk page for that article and follow the instructions in Starting a new thread below. (It is also possible for a talk page to exist while the corresponding non-talk page is a red link; this often occurs in User space , when a user has received talk page messages but has not started a user page yet.)
On some forums, when the user types a new thread subject, the forum software brings up similar threads automatically on the side. This helps keep the number of redundant threads (or the overall forum pollution) to a lower level as users who neglect to search for a topic and are posting a thread may find the answer to their question as they are ...