Best Practice: Alternative words/phrase for "topic"?

With two Insided communities, I’ve changed it to “post” at some level for each. 

My current community is like yours (B2B, mostly support Q&A + Ideation) and we have a somewhat unique spin.

1. We made the +Create Topic in the mega menu “Ask a Question” as it’s the primary use case for the community and the action most users may be looking to take. 
   1. For now, we’re also hiding (via CSS) the option to choose between Question, Conversation, and Idea on the Create Topic option. This way, the Ask a Question button only opens up the option to ask a question
2. On the Ideation landing page, we have a second button specific to “Post an Idea” via the “Ideation Statistics widget”
3. For the Create New Topic dialog, we adjusted the phrases to “Create a Post.” This is because it’s the same UX / module for both asking a question and submitting an idea. We felt “post” fit as the best catch all for both Questions and Ideas. 

Happy New Year! 

Thank you so much for the “market research” and the advice, @Scott Baldwin.
I will definitely consider asking some of my most engaged members.

@DannyPancratz, Thank you for sharing your experience.

That looks like an interesting combo.
I wonder how you are calling a “Topic” in a user’s Profile pop-up?

Best,
Daniele

Daniele wrote:

I wonder how you are calling a “Topic” in a user’s Profile pop-up?

 

 

That’s another area we use Posts instead of Topics. Same idea as #3 described above.