# What Qualifies As a Test Thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 15, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584 "2012-08-15T18:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Sniveling_Mess)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584/1 "2012-08-15T18:03:02Z")

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I’ve never embedded a YouTube video before,so I was thinking about posting a test thread to test that,just so I’ll know how to do it later.Is that the kind of thing that’s allowed in this section?  
Sorry if I seem stupid for asking about this,but I just don’t want to break the rules…and,well,I am stupid,so I can’t really help it.🙂

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584/2 "2012-08-15T18:04:23Z")

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You can’t do that on this board. We’ve turned on picture embedding in the Marketplace, but other than that, it’s turned off.

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**Author:** ![A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Sniveling_Mess)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584/3 "2012-08-15T18:10:04Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> You can’t do that on this board. We’ve turned on picture embedding in the Marketplace, but other than that, it’s turned off.

Well,I’m glad that I know that now so I won’t make that mistake later.  
Thanks a lot for the help.

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-test-thread/631584/4 "2012-08-16T02:47:16Z")

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For the actual question in the OP, though…yeah, this would be the place to try that. It wouldn’t actually work, as \*\*Marley23 \*\*points out.

-D/a