Bumping is the act of posting on an inactive topic to get it active again, usually their own.. This is frowned upon by the moderators, and you'll get in trouble if they catch you doing it. That is the reason you saw the people yelling at the other person. Have a nice day
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Bumping is the act of posting on an inactive topic to get it active again, usually their own.. This is frowned upon by the moderators, and you'll get in trouble if they catch you doing it. That is the reason you saw the people yelling at the other person. Have a nice day
Because the topic was dead probably for the reason of it ran out of discussion value. So when someone bumps a topic, they are pushing a topic to the front with no discussion value and not adding to the/starting a new discussion on it. So they are wasting a slot on the front page that could be used by a topic with more discussion value.
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The problem with the truth, is that it never lies.
Because the topic was dead probably for the reason of it ran out of discussion value. So when someone bumps a topic, they are pushing a topic to the front with no discussion value and not adding to the/starting a new discussion on it. So they are wasting a slot on the front page that could be used by a topic with more discussion value.
Bumping is any act of posting in a dead topic without adding any discussion value so it gets to the front page.
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The problem with the truth, is that it never lies.
I got an infraction for bumping, I had no idea what it was. Now I know! (I don't know how I did it though)
Check for the option to see content after clicking the "Infractions" on your infractions bar. That should say the post that was considered bumping. Remember, even if you don't say "bump" it can still be a bump if it was an old topic and your post added no discussion value.
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Nothing. As Evil said, it's just a word. You're giving the topic a nudge -- a bump -- to bring it back to the front. Think of a game like volleyball, where people bump the ball to keep it in the air. Same thing for forum topics.
Why is it a bad thing? Well, imagine if it was allowed. Every few minutes, someone would bump their thread. Someone or other would bump every single topic in the forum. Aside from mostly-dead topics being temporarily pushed to the front for a while, there wouldn't be much that looked different, on the surface, from what we have now ... but in every single topic, there would be like fifty posts of "bump!" to every real post. Do you really want to try to find the actual content in that? Maybe one real post every two or three pages?
By way of example, just before I quit playing WoW, I stopped in on a server I used to play on there, and discovered that the city trade chat was scrolling at an insane rate. Why? Because there was nothing to stop people from posting the same thing ... "WTB 100 Golden Lotus, PST" ... repeatedly. So someone started doing it, so his stuff was more noticeable than everyone else's. He was just that special, y'know? And someone else did the same, for the same reason. Then everyone else had to do likewise, or their one line wouldn't be seen when everyone else was spamming three. So, in the end, nobody got any more attention than they ever had before, but now the trade chat window was scrolling three times as fast. Everyone loses.
The forum rules are set up to make the forums as usable as possible for as many people as possible. They're not arbitrary. Most of them really amount to special cases of "Don't be a selfish, clueless git" but, apparently, we have to spell it out because if we don't, people will think their particular way of being a selfish, clueless git is okay. So, really, the answer for "why is this a rule?" for almost any value of "this" is that if it wasn't, the forum would be less useful to all of the people who use it.
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bumping is when someone say"bump" on a dead topic
Because the topic was dead probably for the reason of it ran out of discussion value. So when someone bumps a topic, they are pushing a topic to the front with no discussion value and not adding to the/starting a new discussion on it. So they are wasting a slot on the front page that could be used by a topic with more discussion value.
Because we want the slot on the front page for stuff we're actively discussing instead of an old, dead thread.
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It's just a way to get your thread back to the top of a forms page.
encouragedmostly tolerated is the Support forum, because you have a problem that needs fixing.EDIT: You're right, Hazali.
Bumping is any act of posting in a dead topic without adding any discussion value so it gets to the front page.
nope. common misconception i'm afraid.
Check for the option to see content after clicking the "Infractions" on your infractions bar. That should say the post that was considered bumping. Remember, even if you don't say "bump" it can still be a bump if it was an old topic and your post added no discussion value.
Then what does it stand for my good sir?
It doesn't stand for anything. Its just a word.
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It automatically brings up your post.
Nothing. As Evil said, it's just a word. You're giving the topic a nudge -- a bump -- to bring it back to the front. Think of a game like volleyball, where people bump the ball to keep it in the air. Same thing for forum topics.
Why is it a bad thing? Well, imagine if it was allowed. Every few minutes, someone would bump their thread. Someone or other would bump every single topic in the forum. Aside from mostly-dead topics being temporarily pushed to the front for a while, there wouldn't be much that looked different, on the surface, from what we have now ... but in every single topic, there would be like fifty posts of "bump!" to every real post. Do you really want to try to find the actual content in that? Maybe one real post every two or three pages?
By way of example, just before I quit playing WoW, I stopped in on a server I used to play on there, and discovered that the city trade chat was scrolling at an insane rate. Why? Because there was nothing to stop people from posting the same thing ... "WTB 100 Golden Lotus, PST" ... repeatedly. So someone started doing it, so his stuff was more noticeable than everyone else's. He was just that special, y'know? And someone else did the same, for the same reason. Then everyone else had to do likewise, or their one line wouldn't be seen when everyone else was spamming three. So, in the end, nobody got any more attention than they ever had before, but now the trade chat window was scrolling three times as fast. Everyone loses.
The forum rules are set up to make the forums as usable as possible for as many people as possible. They're not arbitrary. Most of them really amount to special cases of "Don't be a selfish, clueless git" but, apparently, we have to spell it out because if we don't, people will think their particular way of being a selfish, clueless git is okay. So, really, the answer for "why is this a rule?" for almost any value of "this" is that if it wasn't, the forum would be less useful to all of the people who use it.
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