how many times and how late can you bump your thread before it becomes sort of sad

hydrophilic attack · May 28, 2018

so, y'all know that feeling

you have put a lot of time into making a thread, and no one even posts in it. or maybe it got a lot of replies, but is now dying, and you want to keep it going for a bit longer

desperately, you try to keep it alive by bumping it yourself, responding to boring questions or quoting a lame joke with a "lol" just to keep the thread going

but we all know that is quite sad behaviour, right? at some point you just have to let it go and accept your thread's fate

so how many times can you bump your own thread before everyone will judge for being such a sad person? how late after creating it can you bump it?

no one would really begrudge you for bumping your own thread after a few hours. but where is the line drawn? can you bump it the next day? is that kosher? what about next week? or even next month

let me know what you think

MrConbon210 · May 28, 2018

DrEvil · May 28, 2018

Zero.

If no one finds it interesting, don't beat a dead horse.

Zonar · May 28, 2018

This describes my whole existence at the old place and at reset era

ahoyhoy · May 28, 2018

Let's find out together OP.

Kingpin Rogers · May 28, 2018

The real fun is when no one responds to this thread and op is forced to find the answer for himself.

MrNewVegas · May 28, 2018

Do the Phantom Thief method. Make 100 threads so you'll have at least a handful of active ones to make you feel good.

Metalgus · May 28, 2018

From what I see, I say you can bump it only once and it can be as long as you want after the last post.

Baladium · May 28, 2018

Let's find out.

Don't fail us, OP.

DrewFu · May 28, 2018

One bump is fine - especially on fast moving forums like this one. If a thread needs more than that, I'd probably just let it die. lol

woopWOOP · May 28, 2018

I respond extra late to any posts for that exact reason, lol
Then after that bump, if no one else cares, I just let it die

Riversands · May 28, 2018

it's okay if no one replies mine, i can live with that. at least it makes me a bit more brave to say my opinion

Llazy · May 28, 2018

MrNewVegas said:
Do the Phantom Thief method. Make 100 threads so you'll have at least a handful of active ones to make you feel good.

lol

cakely · May 28, 2018

Heh, I was really hoping the title was a mod edit.

Realistic answer: maybe once? This is a fast-moving forum. I've never made single thread here. I made maybe, three at GAF.

Baladium · May 28, 2018

MrNewVegas said:
Do the Phantom Thief method. Make 100 threads so you'll have at least a handful of active ones to make you feel good.

Rand a. Thor · May 28, 2018

It depends. Like, I have a Wheel of Time thread, and I am reading the books as I post impressions, so even if its like 10 people who post in the thread, I feel like I have an obligation to bump it each time I finish a book. But if its a topic that no one wants to discuss, I just let it be.

Cochese · May 28, 2018

My threads either crash and burn, or no one reads the OP.

Literally only the two possible outcomes.

Rackham · May 28, 2018

As many times as you want OP. Sometimes you have something niche you want to discuss. Nothing's wrong with that.

Squarehard · May 28, 2018

50 times, then it starts to get sad.

Puck Beaverton · May 28, 2018

Pity posts are the worst

iAmPossum · May 28, 2018

You get three strikes OP. After the third, you're out.

Ehoavash · May 28, 2018

This thread should be a good test experiment op.

Let's see how long you can keep it alive

Sub Level · May 28, 2018

Only 1 bump allowed.

Sometimes the board moves fast and its not your fault that your thread falls into the abyss. 1 bump is ok.

Messofanego · May 28, 2018

Twice, then you might as well let it die :(

AgentLampshade · May 28, 2018

To go a bit off-tangent, I'm fascinated by necro-bumps. How do these users find these months or years old threads and why do they think it's a good idea to continue a conversation that was finished so long ago?

Strangelove_77 · May 28, 2018

I wish no one had responded and OP had to bump his thread later. Y'all ruined it.

WhateverItTakes · May 28, 2018

Once, and even then it has the air of desperation.

JCHandsom · May 28, 2018

I like to be an active part of my thread's conversations, so I'll often bump my own thread a couple times just by responding to multiple posts over the course of its life

I do try and let things go when the topic has reached a natural end-point

intheflorsh · May 28, 2018

It's not sad if you say something cool like "bumping for the night crowd".

BLEEN · May 28, 2018

You wait until someone comes along and posts. Might be years but that's how it goes. If you feel it's that important for it to be seen and it somehow passed thru the cracks, hit up a mod I'm pretty sure they'd "bump" it for you.

Dark_Castle · May 28, 2018

Everyone knows it's 3, 4 if you secret ResetEra platinum account.

Unicorn · May 28, 2018

Omg my slot car thread crashed and burned lol

Driggonny · May 28, 2018

This is why you make era friends so that they'll bump it for you

louisacommie · May 28, 2018

I have a song of ice and fire thread, we have nothing to discuss until the spinoff book and the final season next year and hopefully winds of winter 2019

2023

AgentLampshade said:
To go a bit off-tangent, I'm fascinated by necro-bumps. How do these users find these months or years old threads and why do they think it's a good idea to continue a conversation that was finished so long ago?

Google weird and oddly specific topics

rickyson33 · May 28, 2018

protip: make multiple accounts and have them talk to each other to jumpstart the thread

seriously though 0 unless it's a thread thats news about something and there's a legitimate update to it to post or something like that

Lord Azrael · May 28, 2018

I'm okay with it because a thread can live or die by the time it's posted at. Like if you post something at the middle of the night US time it's definitely gonna get less activity, so it's fine to bump it later for a new audience to give it a new lease on life.

Paperboywriter · May 28, 2018

Cu in 2024

Deleted member 4552 · May 28, 2018

1 person liked my Score Attack game challenge thread.

I just have to guess everyone else likes badly written "cinematic" "gaming".

Beartruck · May 28, 2018

We should make this the longest thread on the site just for irony's sake.

RadioJoNES · May 28, 2018

iAmPossum · May 28, 2018

Beartruck said:
We should make this the longest thread on the site just for irony's sake.

Bump

Deepthought_ · May 28, 2018

I would let it die after I felt I have compelled at least three people to post in it . I don't think that's sad , you just don't want your thread look like a failure.

LucidMomentum · May 28, 2018

How I feel about my threads and posts.

Deleted member 5028 · May 28, 2018

Nah, it's not sad. Sometimes it's all down to timezones tho :/

Dark Ninja · May 28, 2018

Maybe you're on everybody's ignore list op

saenima · May 28, 2018

I've only made like 4-5 threads and they all died miserable deaths. I give it a bump and that's it. No point in dragging corpses around.

RionaaM · May 28, 2018

DrEvil said:
Zero.

If no one finds it interesting, don't beat a dead horse.

This. I spent several work hours making a Last of Us LttP thread in GAF and no one replied. Literally no one. I didn't bump it, because it was clear nobody wanted to discuss it (or read the OP) at the time. Was I sad? Of course, I still feel bad about it and haven't made a thread since. But still I refused to bump it.

blame space · May 28, 2018

just post as many times as you want

D65 · May 28, 2018

I wish no one posted in this thread

XaviConcept · May 28, 2018

If you have something relevant to bump the thread with, theres nothing wrong with that. Just try to keep attention hogging to a reasonable degree lol

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