Hullo there! A lot of people ask “What does **** mean?”. This is a guide if you wanna know some certain terms in Discussion forums or somewhere else in Scratch.
Dupe/Duplicate

Especially in Suggestions,this happens when someone writes a topic which the argument has been wrote by someone else in another topic that user created.

Bump

What's “BUMP”? We're not in a road. Well,it's an acronym. It stands for Bring Up My Post (wiki link)

Dupe/Duplicate

Especially in Suggestions,this happens when someone writes a topic which the subject has been wrote by someone else in another topic that user created.

Workaround

Especially in suggestion,I saw people recreating topics because of a misunderstanding of “Workaround”. But what does that mean? Well,a workaround is a solution to your suggestion. For example,if someone is suggesting this:

say nothing::looks

it would be easily workaroundable with this:

say []

Snip

Why did someone quote me and replaced my post with “<snip>”/“-snip-”? Is he trolling me? Does he want to play a joke on me by replacing my post with things I didn't say? Nope,no scams. See,when there is a long quote tree or a long post,you may want to snip in order to leave more space on the page. Pratically you just shortened a post to save space. (wiki link)

Sticky

This user asked me to read stickies! What does that mean? That's super simple. Have you ever seen this symbol? That's a sticky. It's a topic that is recommended to read before posting in that section.

Now for more complex things.
Necroposting

Necropost? What does it mean? It's because someone died? Nope. Nobody died. “Necro” means “death”,and posting… well… means posting. So? Are you posting a dead body? Not properly. You're posting under something… which is dead. It verifies when the topic is old and your post doesn't add anything to the discussion,or in cases of suggestion, it's a post under a post which suggestion is accepted or rejected.

Thread Hijacking

This is not much heard. It's when someone posts a post declaring another problem or something that isn't related to that topic. Maybe it's not very understandable,but with this example you will understand:

ZZZZZZZZZZZ wrote:

Hippo wrote:

Hey! I have this problem,when i put a block it automatically deletes. Can you help me fix this bug? Thanks

Wow,that's so strange , when I delete a block it comes back in the workspace. Can someone else answer to this?

pratically you used a post of someone to create a new thread. That's not very kind,since it doesn't add nothing to the discussion. (wiki link)

I hope I solved most of new scratcher's problems ! Ask me if there is another term you wanna know.

Kind-of-sort-of-maybe a Duplicate?

wWSunPandaWw wrote:

Kind-of-sort-of-maybe a Duplicate?

Kinda,but there are things that @PrincessFlowerTV didn't wrote,and this topic is especially dedicated to forums,while her topic is dedicated to everything.

Nice! Asked for this to be stickied!

spIit wrote:

Nice! Asked for this to be stickied!

Thanks!

Botcho_Otkho wrote:

wWSunPandaWw wrote:

Kind-of-sort-of-maybe a Duplicate?

Kinda,but there are things that @PrincessFlowerTV didn't wrote,and this topic is especially dedicated to forums,while her topic is dedicated to everything.

Perhaps you could contribute a Forums section to her post? That way we can help avoid the dreaded issue of “sticky proliferation”, which steals space from actual use of the forum section.

Paddle2See wrote:

Botcho_Otkho wrote:

wWSunPandaWw wrote:

Kind-of-sort-of-maybe a Duplicate?

Kinda,but there are things that @PrincessFlowerTV didn't wrote,and this topic is especially dedicated to forums,while her topic is dedicated to everything.

Perhaps you could contribute a Forums section to her post? That way we can help avoid the dreaded issue of “sticky proliferation”, which steals space from actual use of the forum section.

Sure.

Botcho_Otkho wrote:

Sure.

Thanks!

I think we need to be doing more of this - working to consolidate and improve our stickies rather than adding more and more of them.