|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 39
newbie
|
|
newbie
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 39 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 2,379
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 2,379 |
How very cool! I love looking through other people's bookshelves -- it's one of the best ways to find new reading. Thanks. Bing.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,819
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,819 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 2,379
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 2,379 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
Bump (internet)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as:
BUMP, bumpTo bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. This is also called "necroposting", i.e. thread necromancy, or "gravedigging", as old threads are said to be dying or dead.
Typically, a thread may be bumped after it has received no replies in several days or when other, perhaps less significant, threads have knocked it off the front page.
Thread bumping, which in its most open form is simply a post consisting of the word "bump", is commonly considered a breach of netiquette and some moderated forums forbid it. Users may get around that by posting what is ostensibly a genuine reply. Sometimes this will mockingly contain the word "bump" in it, such as *Is wandering the forum when he bumps into this thread*. It may also take the form of a trivial question or response such as "Anyone?", rather than using the word "bump" which makes clear their intention.
In other instances, bumping is used to keep threads deemed important from falling off a front page. In this case, bumping would not be a breach of netiquette; to the contrary, it may be seen as a necessary if mundane task to be performed.
BUMP is sometimes used as a backronym for "Bring Up My Post/Postcount" or as a recursive acronym "Bump Up My Post".
A few forums create a thread specifically for bumping (which usually does not count for a user's postcount). The thread is usually used as a way for forum goers to post on nothing in particular, or just pass time talking to themselves, and allows the moderators to lessen the clutter of pointless threads.
My thought is that this is a friendly bump, since the site indeed is "kewl".
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,819
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,819 |
"Bump" in this case was being employed to bookmark a thread that contained useful or interesting information that I wanted to come back to later. I had nothing to actually say about it (yet), so I simply wrote "bump." I have no interest at all in keeping the thread alive or bringing it to the top otherwise.
(Bump, the poor man's bookmark.)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
This newest version of the board has a really kewl feature. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see in the left bottom corner "Favorite Topic (toggle)". Click on that and you will have a reminder on your homepage that you are interested in the thread. Or, just click on the finger with the string tied around it in the bottom line of the post, called "post extras".
Last edited by consuelo; 05/08/06 11:25 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 557
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 557 |
Quote:
"Bump" in this case was being employed to bookmark a thread that contained useful or interesting information that I wanted to come back to later. I had nothing to actually say about it (yet), so I simply wrote "bump." I have no interest at all in keeping the thread alive or bringing it to the top otherwise.
(Bump, the poor man's bookmark.)
This is tantamount to spraypainting your name on your favorite public park bench. You're changing the shared public world purely to suit your own purposes.
The only "bump" that irritates me more is when the OP bumps a thread by doing an "invisible" edit on the first post. The thread comes to the top, you look at the end and there's no new post at all. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
I was willing to give you the benefit, Alex, until your confession. that to me, is an inappropriate use of the bump.
but I still love you.
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,809
Members9,187
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
403
guests, and
0
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
