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Bumps
Posted by R. Berg on October 01, 2001
In Reply to: "Thanks for the bump" posted by ESC on October 01, 2001
: : : : Recently, I read an exchange on a forum in which someone wrote to another "thanks for the bump". Now I know I should be more up to date on current lingo, and I know I've heard the term before, but what exactly does a "bump" mean in this usage? Thanks. -Patty
: : : Yes, I have seen that also on other boards and forums.
: : : Unlike this forum where a posting stays where it is and people just add to it, there are other forum software packages which, when someone responds to a posting, moves or "bumps" the posting and the reply to the top of the page.
: : : So a subject or query which becomes inactive can be brought back to life by someone posting to it.
: : : When this occurs the original poster will respond by saying "Thanx for the bump".
: :
: : Every once in a while I'm foolishly tempted to think the other
format is better, because it brings your attention to the newest
posts... but ... then I imagine those dreary Whole Nine Yards postings
coming back again and again to the top, and I'm gratelful we have
this format which allows them to sink slowly southward without a
grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and un-bumped.
: But it would be nice to be able to edit one's own posts.
I'd like to edit mine sometimes, but I don't think bumpability would enable it. If I could change my message after posting it, others could change my message too. The potential for a game of "Let's you and him fight" is obvious.
