Are we allowed to "bump" up threads?
Yes, this is what he means. However, I think that more negative than positive aspects would arise by implementing this, also. If we did allow this, everybody would do it, no matter how useful their content was. The forums would become cluttered with lots of messages that said "bump" and would waste our time with reading those instead of reading useful replies.
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Matt Kaufman posted this at 12:56 — 18th June 2000.
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Like if your thread is pretty far down, you could bump it up to the top by replying to it like "bump!" or something
They do it at other forums, just wondered if we could do it here.
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JP Stones posted this at 13:47 — 18th June 2000.
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I would rather we did not do this as I see far more possible negative aspects to this that positive ones.
Comments welcome.
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Anonymous posted this at 14:53 — 18th June 2000.
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I find that when you reply to an old message, it goes to the top of the list, is this what you mean?
Justin S posted this at 19:14 — 18th June 2000.
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I agree with Brian. I hate it when people respond to 3+ week old messages. Holy ****- thundering outside. Better go...
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Matt Kaufman posted this at 19:48 — 18th June 2000.
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Yes, I understand how it could easily make people mad.
Anonymous posted this at 00:14 — 19th June 2000.
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What i meant was that, if you have some good input or need calrification on an old topic, post in it and it will come back to the top, with your useful input or query (sp)
TWTCommish posted this at 15:13 — 27th June 2000.
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I admit at times I'll toss in a little info that MIGHT be useful to someone to bump my topic a bit...as long as you're providing something which might serve a purpose it's probably acceptable...
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abahta posted this at 01:04 — 2nd July 2000.
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I think that if it helps the end user, it is acceptable. Usually this will help the end user, so it is usually acceptable.
Voltec posted this at 01:29 — 2nd July 2000.
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I personally never think about whether I am 'bumping' the subject or not, just whether I am contributing to the discussion or not. If I feel I have something to add, or a question that needs to be asked, than I will put my .02 in, and the thread will rise.
Isn't that the way it is supposed to work?
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thinkhost posted this at 17:11 — 2nd July 2000.
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Howdy,
As someone with quite a bit of experience in runing some of the highly-traffic forums on the Internet (ie lawnsite.com among others), I strongly vote against allowing bumping of threads -- this is a really really really bad idea and will result in long threads half of which will have nothing but
bump
bump
bump
bump
bump
You get the idea! Don't let this happen!
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devstorm.com posted this at 19:25 — 2nd July 2000.
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Bumping certainly has its place in forums, but this particular type of forum would just go out of control if bumps were allowed.
Bumping works rather well in very high-traffic forums, ie: where replies are posted every few seconds. Most of the time the people are honest enough to only bump important threads (this is my experience with a particular forum I visit). The problem we'd run into here at TWF is that people have something to gain by bumping posts: promotion. Every time their thread would get bumped, they'd get more free promotion, and it would get totally out of control.
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