Ryaca wrote:So I've heard many terms on these forums and I still don't understand what all of them mean. Does anyone know what these terms mean?
Subtopic
Subforum
Thread
Post
Sticky
If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.
Google is your friend. Search for forum terms maybe.
This is just what I've figured out from talking to people.
Subtopic I've never heard before; but likely a topic that is a small part of a larger topic. But not too far off topic.
Subforum is just "a forum within a forum"; for example, we have the FT main forum, and Help Wanted is one of its subforums.
Thread is any collection of posts; a topic; for example, you started by posting here your question, and now it is becoming a thread (a discussion).
Post can refer to an individual part of any thread, or as a verb, the action of making such. For example, I have over 1400 posts now
In this thread, yours was the first post, mine was the third.
Sticky is also called pinned on other forums; it is the type of post/thread that is stuck at the top, usually denoted by an icon, in this case, a little pin. Notice the Trade Assistance is a sticky. Stickies will always be at the top, and won't get buried until you have too many of them.