- UL7IM4 G33K
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"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstien
Posted by: cortana 5
Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
Not a button, merely posting. Since we lack post counts, bumping for count would be pointless. Not only that, but bumping several times a day would be obvious spam and result in most likely a ban for such members (helping clean out all the attention seekers and spammers). Giving more temptation for such rule breakers brings them into light and allows you to get rid of them.
I think the biggest thing I hate about this forum is that people here are extremely against change, and are willing to sacrifice the rights and universal features of members just to stop the minority from abusing things.
We're like old people. Well, me at least. (Down with change!)
Anyways, it would be soooo hard to comb though all of the threads created daily. Even if you put a "bumped X amount of times" on threads.
It would become an actual job for the moderators.
Since when do we lack posts? Even if you are seeing less posts that there should be, it might actually be a good thing. It could show that there are more quality posts than massive amounts of spam.
It is not about lacking posts, it is about keeping topic repeats to a minimum. If a topic appears more on the front page than just once, then it will be seen by more people, and therefore give it more than one chance to have people who might be interested in the topic to see it rather than having them all create new posts and maybe having two of them catch on.
Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
No, that is really, bad people would abuse this so much. If no one wants to see the tread why keep it on the front page?
If you first post has good content and is relevant there is no need to bump.
The only way you could legally 'bumb' is quoting different people and answering them back to back, within reason.
Posted by: elmicker
Why would you ever allow the OP to bump a post..? Even if it's still relevent, if it's a contentless post, it takes up valuable frontpage space and simply becomes spam. Utterly pointless endeavour.
Even if the content is constructive, intelligent, well formated and interesting it still falls victim to that one chance it will have to be seen on the front page. If it is bumped once or twice, that gives it a couple more chances to catch on. If that fails then the topic is truly uninteresting to the rest of the people and the poster can give up. If they refuse to give up and keep bumping the topic, then they will get it locked and probably be banned for spam. It is that simple.