bumping

One of the rule is you not allow to bump

But the problem is when your theard get buried to the second page but left unanswered
You will never get an answer if you don't bump it

they could change the rule that you can bump only once if it is unanswered

People do check more than the first page... Well, I'd hope so. I personally check 5-8 pages, and when digging deep, up to 20 when looking for an old thread.

I hate to say this, since it is about going against the policy of no bumping, but there are times when some bumping is needed. Just that it needs to be done rarely, and tactfully if possible.

One way to bump, but yet not bump, a thread is to save your reply to a thread until later; maybe even a day or two later, in hopes of some activity. If you can afford to wait, you can use a legitimate comment to your thread to 'bump' it back up. This is more of a posting strategy, than an actual bump, so it is good, as far as I can tell.

When posting again after you are the last one to post on the thread, making some comment that lacks the word, or implication of 'bump', can be snuck in. For example, last word or complants on a thread that seems to have gone dead might work as a sneaking bump, if done right. Mind you, they need to be done sparingly. So far I haven't been called out for bumping my threads this way, even 2 week old ones, so it works to some degree. It is still awkward though, since I know it is against policy, and I know people's thoughts on bumping. But keeping those in mind, I just play it by gut feel. After such a bump, and still no activity, thread is dead. Can't really revive it without ticking people off. Maybe with someone else's help, but that's yet again another judgement call.

Bump.:rolleyes:

Bumping your thread just to get people to look at an idea which many have disagreed upon is, in my opinion very wrong.

In this sub forum, you HAVE TO bump your thread (if its good and you haven't gotten any negative remarks) so that the stupid DE zapping and elixir wall threads won't sit on top of it.

I personally check as far as 3 pages.

true, If you just go bumpety bump bump it's not cool however if you add or reply to your thread expanding your idea that would pushi it back up - use a bit of tact - a couple of mine are still unanswered, I guess they are things people aren't interested in, anyhow what's your new idea ;)

Is it in anyway related to Clash of Clans?

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Originally Posted by WarriorRudy

Is it in anyway related to Clash of Clans?

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Bump --> you use you hand --> hands have fingers --> fingers can touch stuff --> by touch, clash of clans was downloaded. THE END


Therein lies the mystery to it being related to clash.

For me I bumped in to an old friend and was introduced to clash of clans lol!

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Originally Posted by WarriorRudy

Is it in anyway related to Clash of Clans?

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One of my IFR threads isn't COC related... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by fozage

One of the rule is you not allow to bump

But the problem is when your theard get buried to the second page but left unanswered
You will never get an answer if you don't bump it

they could change the rule that you can bump only once if it is unanswered

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Non answering is an answer. Sometimes threads do appear here that just don't grab anyone's interest. Understood the OP thought they were very important and he personally feels great interest, but that's just a point of view. The non interest of the others was theirs.

One thing to look at is the number of views. if you have only a couple views or something like that then perhaps your post did get pushed back too fast (which is ironically the reason bumping needs to be avoided). But if 20+ people have viewed your post and not one of them felt it was worth their time to respond, that's an answer the OP should just accept.

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

People do check more than the first page... Well, I'd hope so. I personally check 5-8 pages, and when digging deep, up to 20 when looking for an old thread.

I hate to say this, since it is about going against the policy of no bumping, but there are times when some bumping is needed. Just that it needs to be done rarely, and tactfully if possible.

One way to bump, but yet not bump, a thread is to save your reply to a thread until later; maybe even a day or two later, in hopes of some activity. If you can afford to wait, you can use a legitimate comment to your thread to 'bump' it back up. This is more of a posting strategy, than an actual bump, so it is good, as far as I can tell.

When posting again after you are the last one to post on the thread, making some comment that lacks the word, or implication of 'bump', can be snuck in. For example, last word or complants on a thread that seems to have gone dead might work as a sneaking bump, if done right. Mind you, they need to be done sparingly. So far I haven't been called out for bumping my threads this way, even 2 week old ones, so it works to some degree. It is still awkward though, since I know it is against policy, and I know people's thoughts on bumping. But keeping those in mind, I just play it by gut feel. After such a bump, and still no activity, thread is dead. Can't really revive it without ticking people off. Maybe with someone else's help, but that's yet again another judgement call.

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LOL, bumping advice I love it.

Another common trick I see used is to get crappy with the folks that don't agree. Because then the trolls all come out to jump on you which of course gets your thread bumped a lot.

someone put this in off topic. But i agree with the bumping strategies here.

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Originally Posted by Ideaman

someone put this in off topic. But i agree with the bumping strategies here.

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If you spend a lot of time on this forum it becomes apparent why this is the perfect place for it where it pertains the most.

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Originally Posted by rwelshjr

LOL, bumping advice I love it.

Another common trick I see used is to get crappy with the folks that don't agree. Because then the trolls all come out to jump on you which of course gets your thread bumped a lot.

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But of course :) I always try to help.

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Originally Posted by Ideaman

someone put this in off topic. But i agree with the bumping strategies here.

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Originally Posted by rwelshjr

If you spend a lot of time on this forum it becomes apparent why this is the perfect place for it where it pertains the most.

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Oh yeah.. Bringing a topic back to the forefront, not necessarily with a bump, is key to keeping a topic going. On topics I feel that have 'unfairly' dropped out of sight I post a comment on to bring it back up the page count. It's part of the 'gut feeling' judgement I talked about. If there are a lot of negative feedback, I pretty much don't touch it anymore. For stuff I feel like could actually use another shot at first page, I hit it with as good a non-bump looking comment I can for it.

You can say this is a meta-topic, an idea or suggestion on how to do things in an idea and suggestions forum. Technically, not about the game itself, but if moved to the off-topic forum the original purpose and usefulness of this thread would be gone.

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Unfortunately, posts here can drop down past where people normally check regularly after just 24 hours of no activity, regardless on of how good the idea is. Only saving grace it may have is someone actually interested in it enough to activity look for it, because they want to see and make a response. Otherwise the 'out of sight, out of mind' rule kicks in, and people get caught up in something else and forget the last thread that was otherwise good.

Because of this fact, this is why people here bug others to do a search. But default search's doesn't look for only recent threads, but all threads that meet the search terms. You have to go in Advanced Search, and pick an arbitrary post age to keep from 'neco-bumping' an old thread.

Bumping SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED!!!

Oh wait...I just bumped this thread again...

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

But of course :) I always try to help.

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Oh yeah.. Bringing a topic back to the forefront, not necessarily with a bump, is key to keeping a topic going. On topics I feel that have 'unfairly' dropped out of sight I post a comment on to bring it back up the page count. It's part of the 'gut feeling' judgement I talked about. If there are a lot of negative feedback, I pretty much don't touch it anymore. For stuff I feel like could actually use another shot at first page, I hit it with as good a non-bump looking comment I can for it.

You can say this is a meta-topic, an idea or suggestion on how to do things in an idea and suggestions forum. Technically, not about the game itself, but if moved to the off-topic forum the original purpose and usefulness of this thread would be gone.

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Unfortunately, posts here can drop down past where people normally check regularly after just 24 hours of no activity, regardless on of how good the idea is. Only saving grace it may have is someone actually interested in it enough to activity look for it, because they want to see and make a response. Otherwise the 'out of sight, out of mind' rule kicks in, and people get caught up in something else and forget the last thread that was otherwise good.

Because of this fact, this is why people here bug others to do a search. But default search's doesn't look for only recent threads, but all threads that meet the search terms. You have to go in Advanced Search, and pick an arbitrary post age to keep from 'neco-bumping' an old thread.

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I see cases where there is large negative feedback and then it people lose interest. After that the OP who is over excited about how cool his idea (in spite of all the people that told him what is wrong with it) cant stand it not being on page one so they bump it.

we had a guy do that today and then wen called out on it and the idea started to drop off he had a clanmate create a new forum account just to bump his thread. People that can't let go of a bad idea become basically spammers. And more often than that this is when someone bumps their own thread.


I think the one appropriate way to bring you thread to the forefront is if you see another new thread on the topic feel free to post the link to yours into it so the conversations will merge. Under those circumstances it is always ok to promote your own old thread to be re-discussed. People will see your link and if they agree (and you know the OP already does) they will comment on your too which brings it back..