New bump feature

[Supermj]

I have thought the bump was annoying and their need to be a better way for a long time. I think that their should be a button that would bump you thread to the top under the following conditions:

1) You have not bumped it in the last 48 hours
2) It is not on the first page

Who elce think that would be better that trying to put some 15 or more characters to bump?

 

[PurplePoot]

The char-limit has nothing to do with that, but I think those rules are somewhat theoretical yet still practiced. (Well, the first one anyways)

 

[Supermj]

Well, this would not create another post, increasing your post size and it would make the thread a lot cleaner.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

A bump feature would be good but it should go far beyond 48 hours and it would probably be a lot of work having to fiddle so much with vB's scripts for such a thing to work.

 

[Mini-Me]

What's wrong with the old post bumping? If your post is not the last on the thread, and its your maps thread or something then you can freely bumb it by saying like "hey, anyone tryied this and have comments?" or something like that.
If your post is the last one on the thread, just copy what it has, delete the post, and post it again, with maybe a side note *bump* in the end.

If there was such a feature that you are suggesting, I think the front page would always be filled with the same topics, not giving any 'shy' guys a chance. Not everyone want to bump their threads.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I think the topic creator should only have the chance to bump the thread, and I think it should be a number of days before they can bump it.

I actually like the idea though.

 

[Mechanical Man]

What is the purpose of character minimum limit anyway?

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

What is the purpose of character minimum limit anyway?

So people dont spam a 3 letter message. You just do a dot, tons of spaces, and another dot. I will get rid of the spaces but still cout them as chars I think...

Anyways, I like the idea..But it might not be worth the work when other things are being worked on atm.

 

[Wolverabid]

It's likely that any "bump thread button" would also require the poster to input a valid message.

It just doesn't seem useful when one can already bump a thread simply by posting a message using the "Add Reply" feature.