- RighteousTyrant
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Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!
Posted by: Recon Number 54
I am against the IDEA of bumping.
It is the ultimate in selfishness.
"My topic is important, people need to see it. I don't CARE that those other threads are getting actual replies and discussion, MINE should be!"
Which even though it is really selfish, imagine if it were allowed. Then EVERYONE, who think that they have a "more important topic than this other crap" is permitted to bump.
Then what do we have? At any time, the first page of each forum could quite possibly be completely filled with posts where someone has bumped and there have been no meaningful replies. And the page-worth of topics that were getting responses are now a page or two down. What are their participants/creators going to do? That's right, they are going to bump too.
No, no, no. A thousand times no.
And when everyone's bumping, the no one is really going to get ahead. The core issue seems to be that the forum pages move really fast, which is a product of numerous threads being created. Seems to me what, if anything, is needed is a system or policies that would somehow limit the number of new threads being created.
Perhaps when someone gets banned from posting, a ban from starting new threads could endure for some amount of time after their posting ban expires--this might cut down on the number of spam threads a little. Also, B.net could filter for and reject any thread where the title or body contains the R-word, the N-word, Mauler, melee, custom game, Luke owes me steak, or any other much-discussed topic, and give the would-be poster of the thread a polite (or not) message informing him/her of the search function--this would reduce greatly the number of repeat topics. Anyone posting a farewell/I'm done with Halo thread should be permanently held to their words and permabanned from the site--okay, maybe that's a bit extreme...
Just some ideas...