tame Posted:

Q: What counts as a post?

A: It’s difficult to define a “post”, really. Google defines a “post” as any of the following:

• affix in a public place or for public notice; “post a warning”

• the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is bumigned to stand; “a soldier manned the entrance post”; “a sentry station”

• publicize with, or as if with, a poster; “I’ll post the news on the bulletin board”

• bumign to a post; put into a post; “The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu”

• military post: military installation at which a body of troops is stationed; “this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby”; “there is an officer’s club on the post”

• station: bumign to a station

• position: a job in an organization; “he occupied a post in the treasury”

• an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position; “he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them”

• display, as of records in sports games

• enter on a public list

• United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)

• transfer (entries) from one account book to another [/i]

• United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)

• United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)

• ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse’s trotting gait

• mail: any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; “your mail is on the table”; “is there any post for me?”; “she was opening her post”

• stake: mark with a stake; “stake out the path”

• a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); “a pair of posts marked the goal”; “the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake”

• place so as to be noticed; “post a sign”; “post a warning at the dump”

• mail: the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; “the mail handles billions of items every day”; “he works for the United States mail service”; “in England they call mail `the post’”

• mail: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; “send me your latest results”; “I’ll mail you the paper when it’s written”

• mark or expose as infamous; “She was branded a loose woman”

• the delivery and collection of letters and packages; “it came by the first post”; “if you hurry you’ll catch the post”

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Perhaps this helps you?

But really, a “post” is many things, and something different to each and every one of us; what you view as a “post” may differ greatly from what someone else considers a “post”. However, one thing is for certain, and that is that no one really knows for sure.

In this thread in particular, the “post” is left up to the individual to define.

I hope this helped to answer your question. Thank you.