| |
I was giving a friend a tour of the site today, and being new to Web 2.0 he wanted to know what a “thread” is. And of course that requires definitions of “Board” and other terms. So for all those Newbies with the same question: This is not a polished answer, but a first approximation:
A thread is a conversation, within a discussion group aka special interest group. Thinktank is one of over 200 special interest groups on Zaadz. On Zaadz these are called Pods. Each special interest group or pod has topic areas defined by the group creator. These are called Boards. Usually there are about half a dozen Boards. Within a Board, any person is able to “start a conversation” which is initiated by the Post New Topic tab at the top left of the pages. People enter any particular conversation by clicking on Reply to Thread at the bottom of the latest post (a post is an entry or note.) As long as no one changes the Subject officially, each Reply to Thread will be in the thread, and all these posts can be seen just by scrolling down the thread page.
When you have clicked on a Board's name, the different items in the next list are all threads. You can see the latest postingin each thread, who started the thread, when, how many posts in the thread, and so on. Some Boards have many threads, some have few. Some threads have many posts or entries, some have very few.
As always, everything blue underlined is a link which will take you to that item. If you want to go directly to the latest post in a thread,click on the green arrow to the right of the name of the person who posted that item, which is displayed on the page showing all threads on that Board. Sometimes it takes more than one page to list all the threads. Generally the most recently-started threads are at the beginning of the list. You can track the dates.
Now I will test my new knowledge of Permalinks by creating a permalink from HOW TO's and FAQ's pod to this post, as this could be an FAQ as well. This is the first of many such cross-posts I plan, to facilitate access to the good info many folks have posted in these instructional pods: Zaadz Support, Zaadz Portal, HOW TO's and FAQ's, and Thinktank.
Hope this little explication has been helpful to someone. Will test it on my friend soon!!!
And for anyone who wants a more expert explanation, go to http://en.wikipedia.org and search for the term you want. Their explanations are generally understandable by Newbies.
Blessings, OM Bastet
|
Help
Sign In
RSS Feed
Permalink
Print
Email
