How do we feel about thread bumping?

My understanding has always been that it's definitely frowned upon. I have seen people bump their own thread 3 or 4 times within a couple of hours.

It always strikes me that the poster feels the world revolves around them and the rest of us should jump to take care of them before tending our own business.

I have reported this activity at times but I've never followed up so I don't know if any action was taken by a mod.

I'm with you Andy.
Very tedious and bad mannered really.
There's no written rules but they do get removed when reported.

I don't like it myself but it happens

I think they do that just to mine for the real answers although if they did a search on here they could find it.

I think majority of the questions have been answered on this forum but people are to lazy to search for it so just make a thread.

I have never done it here but I have on other forums I belong to. But I only do it when I really cant find out the answer to something by myself. I dont think I am any more important than anyone else, I am just really in need of an answer.

I know on previous versions of this forum, people used to "blind bump," and that was always frowned upon. It was called a blind bump because you could make a slight edit, such as changing a comma to a period and your thread would go back to the top.

I'll never forget when Willie was a Mod I PMed him and asked about regular bumping and he said it was rude, but one time wouldn't get you in trouble. That was back when bumping was defined as anytime you replied to anyone in your own thread. We were supposed to post once and then shut up.

Now bumping seems to only apply when you reply to yourself.

Then the classic bumps in the WSO section are probably remembered by all ol timers here.

Finally when the bump ability was taken away from the WSO Forum an enterprising member discovered you could pay again and bump. This Caused an uproar and much flaming of the Father of the WSO bump.

Allen institute the 3rd page rule and made a lot of people, who were against WSO bumps, mad. I laugh now when I see those same people Bumping.

This ramble probably doesn't answer the OP but ya got an old Warrior reminiscing.

George Wright, P.S. It's still possible to "blind bump," How? I'll never tell. P.P.S. I'm sure the Mods aren't "blind" to it anyway.

Andy, I agree with you although if someone asks a question and gets no replies
and 24 hours have passed then I can understand them bumping it once rather
than starting a new thread related to the same question.

Other than that, bumping just because you think your thread is more important
than the other Warrior threads is just pure rude.

Just my .02,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

to me there is no reason for a blatant bump... that show laziness.

if i were to ask a question that did not get answered with 12 hours or so, which would be very very rare around here, my first thought would be that maybe some clarification of my issue is needed.

not to much gets posted that others have not run across before and most times people here are more than willing to give advice.

i frown upon them very much. but like alexa i dont see that much. the only place i notice it much is in the jv forum. and then its usually a cheap ploy to bring more attention to a thread.

as long as it's not excessive spamming and the topic is actually interesting then it's not a problem to me

As Les said, there aren't any written rules on it, but it's generally considered to be rude. That depends, of course, on how you define it.

If someone visits once a day and answers a bunch of replies in one round of posts, I don't consider that bumping. Some people do, although I can't really understand why.

Posting a thread and then following up your own post with "Anyone?" 10 minutes or an hour later is clearly bumping, and it's not greeted warmly. It's like being in a crowded room with lots of people talking and someone starts jumping up and down and saying "Hey! I have a question!"

This is a very crowded room.

There aren't rules about it, but there are conventions that existed before most of us ever got on the net. It's not exactly a cardinal sin, but it's one of those "oh, that was rude" things that makes some people look at your other posts a bit less favorably.


Paul

I think like most forums there is a certain culture here, and the practice of bumping your thread endlessly is generally frowned upon in many online communities.

That said, I do believe if your question has gone unanswered for more than 24 hours, you should be able to bump it (and state this) to hopefully get the answer to your question.

If it's just a rant, opinion or achievement thread and they are just "bumping to bump" than I find that kind of annoying. Not enough to ruin my day, but if everybody did it the forum would be a wild wild place indeed.

Bumping your thread after a certain amount of time is OK... If the concern is really that great then I guess you might as well bump the thread (put a good reason too.. don't just put BUMP!). But doing 2 bumps is already too much. Its either people don't have any answer to your concern or they just don't care at all.

I don't care.

I have never noticed it.

LD, Bumping old threads is really only a problem when the poster adds nothing to the content. It's usually mentioned when someone digs up a months or years old thread to say "Great post" or "I agree." These "Me too" sorts of replies do nothing but clutter the front pages with stuff most people who are interested have already read.

A better way to handle a situation where you've done the research and didn't get a complete or current answer is to start by linking to the threads you already looked at and explaining what portions of your question weren't covered, or you just aren't sure about.

This is one of those "Bothers some people more than others" things.


Paul

I'd rather see a good thread bumped than deleted or locked just because......

Thomas

You're probably right a good bit of the time Frank. I see a good thread as one that is getting lots of different interaction and posts from a variety of people who actually have something to say.

Thomas

Ive wanted to 'bump' at times as i know there is loads of helpful people on here. But this can be dependant on the time of the post. And i don't really keep track of say USA time or any other country, although i have thought at times when i've asked for help then maybe i should take note of other countries time. Thanks for starting this thread, i shall observe etiquette should i ever do the bump!

Alan

Bump.......

(just kidding )

That's interesting - So there aren't rules but definitely some level of general expectation and perception.

To be honest I half thought I'd get flamed just for bringing it up but was genuinely interested in whether we had some sort of guideline about it.

It's interesting to see what sort of things also get classed as bumping. I'd only considered people bumping a thread they started since that's what blatently stands out, but the issue of old threads suddenly coming up from years ago with people responding like they're fresh is another one that's probably in the same category for sure.

I guess in most instances it tends to be blatent if someone has an agenda or has blatently not actually read the thread they're posting on.

Thanks for all the replies and thoughts.

Andy