This is really rather kewl

http://www.librarything.com/

Thumbs up!

How very cool! I love looking through other people's bookshelves -- it's one of the best ways to find new reading. Thanks. Bing.

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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".

"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 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".

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"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.

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.

The first instance of this bumping was way back when in the British Museum when Engels was writing there. These dinks would come in and "bump" the books to keep them on the reserve shelf where they were unavailable.

Finally, he had had enough and caned one of them. The arresting bobby reported the crime:

Engels hurt bumper dink.

SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally I am not bothered in the least by bumping per se. I could see if it got out of hand or was done invisibly per Myridon's comment it could be a little irritating, but it is so rare around here (except on rare occasions) that I find it totally unobjectionable.

Wow you guys really get worked up over this stuff. Honestly I don't know if it is worth it to reply to all this, but here goes.

First, a recap:

(1) Bingley posted a link to http://www.librarything.com/ in the Information and Announcement forum.

(2) Kelly123 and inselpeter posted brief replies praising the post, one of which simply read "Thumbs up!" If one were so inclinced (and I am not), one could complain that these were essentially pointless replies.

(3) I glanced at the link and wished to come back to it later so I "bumped" it for future reference. (i.e. so that it would appear as a watched topic, not so it would go to the top of the forum.)

(4) inselpeter expressed curiosity at the term "bump."

(5) consuelo pasted a long wikipedia description of "bump" with which I disagree on several points, both generally and specifically as to how it applied to my previous post.

(6) I briefly explained as much.

(7) consuelo very helpfully showed me how I can achieve the same effect of marking a thread that I wish to follow. (Thanks consuelo.)

(8) Myridon compared me to a vandal and opined that I was "changing the shared public world purely to suit [my] own purposes" and informed me/us that I had committed a gravely irritative act as far as Myridon was concerned, second only to insidious invisible edits by OPs intending to bring their thread to the top.

(9) etaoin expressed a slightly more gentle disapproval, one tempered by an expression of love which, I presume, is the kind of love a man has for Chicago, or a smelly old shoe, rather than romantic love. etaoin implied that he had attributed to me one of at least two possible motives, the nobler of which was subsequently ruled out by my "confession." And, he implied that there are some appropriate uses of bump, but he did not elaborate. The world awaits with baited breath the debut of his critical theory on bumping.

(10) TEd Remington meted out some truly terrible punishment.

(11) Faldage expressed a combination of tolerance and ambivalence towards bumping.

My goodness what an uproar! Had I known the misery that I was about to cause, and the public censure that would ensue from members of this board who insist on only the most informative, well-thought-out and reasoned replies I would not have dared to even turn open the lid to my laptop, let alone type an entry.

Now to address some of the points above:

(5): I am not the OP so I have no vested interest in the thread, nor in the link Bingley provided. Nor am I concerned with increasing my postcount. Were I the proprietor of http://www.librarything.com/ it would be inappropriate of me to drum up interest in the web page.

(7): Again thanks. This tip shall save me time and Myridon spikes in blood pressure and it will probably bring about peace in the Middle East.

(8): It is indeed a wicked, wicked world and there is much suffering and injustice everywhere. Thank heavens there are people like you who not only are stalwart in their defense of the helpless, the weak and the ignorant but also set an example by maintaining a calm, rational perspective on events.

(9): Number nine, number nine

(10) That was another fine pun, TEd and I look forward to reading more of them in the future.

And, of course, it is about the public world that we change it to suit our own purposes.

heh.

worked up? hardly.

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bumping is used to keep threads deemed important from falling off a front page.

I stroke with a feather, and get hit with a brick.

Chicago? more like Philadelphia.

[/calm logic]

... one tempered by an expression of love which, I presume, is the kind of love a man has for Chicago, or a smelly old shoe,...

It depends upon what part of Chicago yer tawkin about.

Wouldn't that be Shoes in your case, Muzak?