What is OP

[Fox Mike]

I see a bunch of individual avatars are showing a diagonal slash with OP in it. What does that indicate?

 

[Cholo]

Original Post perhaps?

 

[GasGuzzler]

Original PostER of that topic.

AKA topic starter.

If you scan unread posts everyday you'd see where Kevin asked for the feature to be added so when on page 13 of a topic we could see who we were really answering. Within a few days, the feature appeared.

But the acronym OP has always been used on forums since the beginning ... only now the "OP" is labeled for our reference.

 

[s4s4u]

You will often see OP mentioned in replies as well. It is a short way to reference the original post(er) without using their "handle" (nickname)

 

[Dan in MI]

I thought it was Andy Griffith’s kid.

 

[Fox Mike]

Original PostER of that topic.

AKA topic starter.

If you scan unread posts everyday you'd see where Kevin asked for the feature to be added so when on page 13 of a topic we could see who we were really answering. Within a few days, the feature appeared.

But the acronym OP has always been used on forums since the beginning ... only now the "OP" is labeled for our reference.

If that is so then why does;t every post have that on the original poster? I started this post and here is no 'slash OP' on my avatar

 

[Fox Mike]

And as soon as I wrote the above post the 'slash OP' occurred.

 

[GasGuzzler]

If that is so then why does;t every post have that on the original poster? I started this post and here is no 'slash OP' on my avatar

Something in the code for the forum. The OP banner isn't needed with only a few replies so maybe #6 is what it takes.

 

[blume357]

Well, how about that... learn something new everyday... I knew what OP meant but did not know about the slash thing or just never noticed it.

 

[LCP22LR]

OP = Original Poster or Thread Starter.