I haven't seen anyone here bump a thread in the basic sense.
My point: I think we can all agree that there's nothing wrong with bumping a thread that never got feedback.
But is it immoral to bump a thread that did get responses? This seems like the equivalent of reposting one of your recent threads.
Even worse still are the ones that bump "zero reply" threads, but repeatedly.
Glad we don't have that here.
There's just one rule: don't. Okay, just don't. No one wanted to reply to your crummy topic, get over it!
Unless of course, you're making a master list of Blue Oyster Cult masterpieces and no one else wants to put in a little work.
For myself, I think it depends where I'm at. When I was on filmboards, I'd bump ignored threads if I deemed them worthy, after 3-5 days.
For some reason, I'm not tempted to do that here.
There was a thread not that long ago about whether it was OK to bump your own thread. IIRC the consensus was it's ok as long as it's not done more than a couple of times.
Bumping a thread that has replies seems strange. Reviving an old thread--by actually saying something besides *bump*--seems fine to me.
Certain older threads are worth posting to to keep them going...some topics have hundreds of interesting conversations and replies and that's why we're all here
I Especially enjoy responding to the posts that have no replies, I like to bump the crew...If you took the time to post it figure I'll reply, unless it's totally out of my wheelhouse
It happens so infrequently here, that it's not a concern.
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