What is the point...

[ryan840]

of bumping a thread you think is getting old by stating that it is getting old, or time to move on? I just don't get it! I see people do it all the time and it makes me laugh every single time. Anyone else find this amusing?

 

[edcrbnsoul]

*bump*

 

[missypie]

I will say that at certain times of the day, this board moves very fast, and you can find yourself on page 4 within an hour or so of your post.

 

[vacanut]

 

[ryan840]

I will say that at certain times of the day, this board moves very fast, and you can find yourself on page 4 within an hour or so of your post.

An hour? Try five minutes! All I was referring to though was when someone posts that a thread is going nowhere, getting old, time for it to die, etc... and they are doing just the opposite, keeping it alive! I just find people so funny sometimes.

 

[hugsquared]

BUMPING because I want people to know its getting old
Sorry, I know I'm being a smarty pants but it just struck me as funny since I guess I just did that with the Breast Feeding thread. But as a woman, I have to have the last word. Just ask DH

 

[Chicago526]

Uhh! This is so old, would you DROP it already!

 

[disykat]

I've had people bump threads up from several pages down to scold me for responding to a thread that they thought should die. It always makes me laugh because they scolded me for doing what they are doing themselves.

 

[bicker]

There are actually many online forums that prohibit the practice of bumping threads, and at least one for which it will get you banned. The philosophy behind bumping itself is a little suspect IMHO... It seems to me that the bump-er is saying that "My favored thread is more important than all these other threads that people are replying to more readily." It seems to me that the software for these forums is designed so that the most recently-replied-to threads are at the top, and that's deliberate.

By the same token, it is interesting to note that bumping has the reverse affect on folks who surf these forums as I do: I have bookmarks in my Favorites for each of the forums I visit, that are specifically a bookmark to the forum with query string settings so that I see only threads replied-to over the last day, but sorted by number of replies, ascending. In other words, while I don't see older threads, I see the threads that have been replied-to the least at the top of my forums. I do this deliberately because those threads are typically threads (1) that are questions for which no one provided an answer, and perhaps I could, (2) that are an interesting discussion just getting started, and (3) that are least likely to, if controversial, have gotten past the point where the thread degrades into petty sniping. (I typically unsubscribe from threads after Page 4, so no sense in subscribing to a thread I'll be unsubscribing to in no time.) So actually, bumping a thread, which adds a new reply, makes those threads go further down in the forum, from my standpoint.