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09/22/2003 10:26:52 AM · #1 |
OK, this might be the silliest question, but what does bump mean? I've seen it so many times in the different threads, but I have yet to understand why people do it...
Can someone enlighten me?
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09/22/2003 10:28:11 AM · #2 |
| It is just a way to 'bump' the thread up to the top of the page. To get more replies and to keep the thread active longer. |
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09/22/2003 10:32:14 AM · #3 |
It's an effort to bring back to life an uninteresting thread ... 99% of the time.
;)
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09/22/2003 10:51:51 AM · #4 |
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09/22/2003 11:51:50 AM · #5 |
It is something you do to the car in front of you ;)
There - I have managed to BUMP the thread again
Message edited by author 2003-09-22 11:52:26. |
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09/22/2003 11:56:11 AM · #6 |
it is barrier that you need to pass or go over in order to proceed and move forward.
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09/22/2003 12:12:23 PM · #7 |
It's an unwillingness to acknowledge the harsh reality that nobody else cares about the content of the thread.
Usually followed up by one or two other comments that really ram home the fact that nobody else cares.
The second bump is the refuge of the terminally hopeful or deluded poster. |
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09/22/2003 02:50:29 PM · #8 |
Or to make sure a group sees something - like if you're planning the West Bumfuk GTG and by the time 6pm West Bumfuk time rolls around, it's 15 posts down, you "bump" it so that everyone who may want to go to your gettogether sees it.
:)
(I must be terminally hopeful)
M
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09/22/2003 02:55:15 PM · #9 |
i agree with all of these opinions.
but sometimes a bump is warranted because you post something and the target audience misses it because they just didnt happen to get logged on before it got squeezed off the front page.
let's not stigmatize all bumpers :)
Message edited by author 2003-09-22 14:55:24.
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09/22/2003 02:58:15 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by magnetic9999:
i agree with all of these opinions.
but sometimes a bump is warranted because you post something and the target audience misses it because they just didnt happen to get logged on before it got squeezed off the front page.
let's not stigmatize all bumpers :) |
what he said.
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09/22/2003 03:02:44 PM · #11 |
| 90% what Gordon said. 10% what Mag said. |
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09/23/2003 01:24:23 PM · #12 |
Well, thank you for all the explanations. I feel really educated :-))
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09/23/2003 01:36:17 PM · #13 |
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09/23/2003 01:45:36 PM · #14 |
It's also the German word for . . . well, we won't get into that . . .
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09/25/2006 11:44:26 PM · #15 |
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
"BUMP is sometimes used as a backronym for 'Bring Up My Post/Post count' or as a recursive acronym 'Bump Up My Post'.
For inactive threads, this is also called 'necroposting', i.e. thread necromancy, or 'gravedigging', as old threads are said to be dying or dead."
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09/25/2006 11:51:04 PM · #16 |
Bumping this for anyone out there who may have missed it, and needs to better understand what a bump is
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09/26/2006 12:11:31 AM · #17 |
I know one thing....
...I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman...
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09/26/2006 12:13:43 AM · #18 |
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