Conversation

A titled, threaded discussion anchored to a visibility scope. Conversations are the primary social object for group discourse. Every conversation has a creator, a visibility setting, and zero or more replies.

Visibility scopes:

• public — visible to any member within the discovery graph
• community — visible to members of the linked community
• private — visible only to named participants

Allowed:

• public conversation
• community conversation
• private conversation
• conversation thread (informal; acceptable in UI copy only)
• reply to a conversation

Forbidden:

• thread (reserved for message and Social DM containers; qualify it)
• chat (implies real-time; not the model)
• post (connotes a feed item; not the model)
• topic (ambiguous)
• discussion (acceptable in UI prose but not as a technical noun)

Notes:

• Events have an attached conversation for their discussion. This is an event conversation, not a standalone conversation.
• One-to-one communication uses a thread, not a conversation. Open Messages belong to Messages; Social DMs belong to Social.

Related:

• reply
• message
• social-dm
• community
• event
• visibility