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Fighteer
MOD
(Time Abyss)
2017-09-05 08:49:58
Did the irony of creating a topic to complain about people bumping topics occur to you at all?
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GnomeTitan
Since: Aug, 2013
Fighteer
MOD
(Time Abyss)
2017-09-05 14:50:15
Not really. If a particular user is doing it too much, we'll reprimand them.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Am I the only one who's thinking that bumping of threads has gone a bit out of hand lately? I've seen examples where threads have been bumped after just a couple of hours of inactivity.
It seems people are worried that if a thread scrolls of the page in their web browser, nobody will see it. Is this really the case? I tend to scroll down until I find a thread that hasn't changed since last I read it. And I'm sure the mods do so as well, so as not to miss any important stuff.
Am I being overly sensitive here? Perhaps, but please consider that the current frequent bumping can actually aggravate the (perceived) problem and even be self-reinforcing, because every bumped thread pushes everything else down, and then somebody will bump a thread that just went off the bottom of the page, and so on...