As @LSLGuy said, the intentions of the threads are different.
Are you reading the OPs, or the many recent posts by people who’ve lost the thread about what the threads are for?
There is no thread that will stay on topic if enough people don’t care.
I’m confused:
Yeah, we have misread thread titles, and misinterpreted thread titles-I, at least, am fully square on the crucial distinction between the two. Are the “two” threads being alluded to those? Because I cannot find a SECOND jeans thread on any searches.
I as the author of the misread post am just as confused, but I think the general confusion arose because some posters didn’t notice the difference between the words “looser” and “loser”.
It’s that there are two “Misread thread titles”, this one from 2017 and one from 2010 which differs from this thread title only in capitalization. There is also the “Misinterpreted thread titles” which is a completely separate thread.
Here’s the other actual “Misread Thread Titles” thread:
Ah, that clears it up, I wouldn’t have thought that this is possible in Discourse.
I misread ‘Misread thread titles’ as ‘Misinterpreted thread titles’.
Then I misinterpreted ‘Misinterpreted thread titles’ to mean ‘Misread thread titles’.
Man, I think need more coffee this morning! 
I had no idea there was a clone thread, didn’t notice it got rezzed.
I’m reading the OPs. As @solost points out, there is a third thread called Misinterpreted thread titles. I’m not talking about that one. I’m talking about the two duplicate threads. If you think there’s a distinction between those two in the OPs, I encourage you to read them more closely.
Huh? I was just trying to make a joke about the perceived misunderstanding between the ‘Misread’ and ‘Misinterpreted’ threads, not to point out a second, or third ‘Misinterpreted’ thread. @Ludovic pointed out a few posts up that there are two ‘Misread’ threads, but I know nothing about two, let alone 3, ‘Misinterpreted’ threads.
I think I’m going to go do something simpler now, like try again to understand the plot thread of the movie ‘Primer’ 
This is the most confusing thread ever. I was agreeing with you. I think @LSLGuy didn’t realize there are two “misread thread titles” threads, and thought I was talking about “misinterpreted thread titles”.
And now I’m going to start a fourth thread called “Misread Threads.”
Not a misread thread, but at the experimental garden at the lake this morning I saw a placard. The tops of the letters were obscured by the placard frame, so I read “CALIFORNIA HAS NAIVE BEES!”
…NATIVE BEES
You’re right; I was confused too. Thanks for setting out the whole story, not just one slice of it as I had.
Upon reading here & now about there being two misread threads, I kinda sorta remember that at one time I knew that there was also an ancient misread thread. But I sure couldn’t / didn’t recall that unassisted here and now.
But to me that falls into the category of zombie. We have lots of old threads on topics and new threads with functionally identical titles are a commonplace.
Yes, in the last ~10 years we’ve all gotten a lot more relaxed about zombies. But if there is a newer thread, the old one ought just be left to rest in the ooze.
Okay, now that i understand the issue, several people have suggested the two threads be merged. Vote here:
- Yes, please merge the threads
- No, i prefer they not be messed with
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voters
It’s tidier to combine the threads, but there’s always some confusion from combining threads, either posts get listed out of order, or posts from the two threads can get interleaved in confusing ways. I’m happy to merge them, if that’s the preference, though.
I suppose another option is to close the older one.
I voted to merge the threads, but perhaps closing the older one would be the better option.
Agreed, maybe with a note and a link leading to the newer thread.
There are three threads in play.
- The ancient misread titles thread
- The modern misread titles thread
- The modern misinterpreted titles thread
Which two does your poll address? Which are you proposing to merge or change or whatever?
My POV is that now that the ancient one (my #1) has been revived, it’s too hard for ordinary posters to tell it from #2. So close #1, move the very few recent posts from #1’s end to the end of #2, add a modnote about the reason for the closure as the final post of #1 with a link to the OP of the new thread #2.
So just like how an ongoing thread automatically closes and restarts as “Whatever … [part 2]” when it hits 10K posts. But implemented manually.
And perhaps put a mod comment at the top of #2 & #3 highlighting their different criteria and reminding folks to be careful to pick the correct one.
1 and 2. I had planned to leave 3 alone.
Do the laws of the Old Testament apply to Christians? in GD
Becomes
Do the laws of the Old Gods apply to Christians?
Uh, no… I don’t think so.
Any others? (Misread sequential is welcome too)