Quick Stupid Question!

What does Boards mean in terms of Forums.

Does it mean like the Whole Forum, or like the Forum Sections, or the Threads.

Or could it mean more than 1?

 

Board is the same as "category."

 

I consider board and forum one in the same.

Microsoft Forums or Microsoft Message Board.

I consider the subcategories all sectiions within that forum.

But to each his own.

 

Ah, cool thanks guys.

So it goes like

Message Board - Boards - Threads

Simliarly

Forum - Catergorties/Forums - Threads

 

Most words like that are often used for multiple parts of a community.

I use;

Thread, Topic: For actual topics, like the one you have stated here.
Posts, Replies: Posts in the above.
Category: Being the heading of a section which the as forums.
Forums: Being single, in categories. Also there are sub forums.
Forum, Community, Board, Message Board: Being an whole forum.

Thats how I use them.

 

would Boards used as Forums?

 

"Boards" come from the early BBS days "Bulletin Board Systems" when you actually dialed directly into the system. Eventually there was the internet and software packages like UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) and wwwthreads were early popular software. Somewhere along those years the word forums took hold. Now it's more desirable to name your site a forum instead of a message board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Bulletin_Board

 

It really depends on the context it's used it. Most commonly it's a synonym for forums.

 

Ya, but sometimes forum is not available ^_^