Talk:Bump (Internet)

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Bumping is also a type of lockpicking!

I don't get it - do you need to use the word "bump" in a bump? The article makes it sound like you do.

Yes I was wondering the same thing after reading this. The article seems to imply the word bump is required. And presumbly the person who started the thread would be the one to bump it? The article does not specify this though. If someone else replies, then wouldn't that just be the normal situation or replying to something? Asa01 05:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, imo it's not necessary. Making a post like "anyone?" is also a bump. What I was gonna comment on was that BUMP could be a recursive backronym too, BUMP Up My Post. MrKode

It seems to me that some (probably trolls) use "bump" in the game to see who can be the first to post or reply to a post. Used sparingly, I can understand how it keeps threads alive in a busy forum, but the trolls are probably going to cause a crackdown by moderators. RiverviewClock 02:21, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Do forums in other languages also use the word "bump", is it in universal usage, or is it only on English forums?

[edit] Contradiction?

The article talks only of posting in order to bring the thread back to attention. I'd got the impression that people often do it by the same name to get themselves attention or to increase their posting tallies - in which case it might not even be following up an existing thread. Hence "Bump Up My Post [Count]" mentioned later. -- Smjg 17:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bump vs. Ways to bump

"To bump a thread on an Internet forum is to post a reply to it purely in order to raise the thread's profile."

This is wrong. Bump is the act of raising a thread's profile. Posting a reply in a thread is only one way of *causing* a bump. Another, way less spammy way to do it is by the option to bump a thread, present in forum systems like the one presented by InvisionFree (http://www.invisionpower.com/community/board/index.html).

There are more than one way to bump a thread, posting is only one of them and it's incorrect to state that one of them is the definition of bump. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.180.50.153 (talk) 20:43, 11 January 2008 (UTC)