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Title: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: notsohotshot on June 08, 2012, 10:05:03 PM

Just checking to see if our posts move back up to the top of the list per category when it is posted to? LMK

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: BallReviews-TECH on June 08, 2012, 10:22:19 PM

All topics are sorted by the order of last post so after a topic is posted on by a bump or by someone posting, it is moved to the top of that category.

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: MC on June 08, 2012, 10:28:50 PM

Quote from: BallReviews-TECH on June 08, 2012, 10:22:19 PM

All topics are sorted by the order of last post so after a topic is posted on by a bump or by someone posting, it is moved to the top of that category.

I'm not seeing that when I bump my own topic. If I post on another's topic it shows, but not my own.

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: BallReviews-TECH on June 09, 2012, 01:16:09 AM

Where are you seeing that the topic hasn't moved? Looking at:
http://www.ballreviews.com/general-fsftwtb-b26.0/
the most recent post I see is one that was bumped.

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: MC on June 09, 2012, 06:25:48 AM

I just bumped the post I STARTED in the Storm For Sale Forum and it is not listed as the most recent posting on the Home page. Did you start the one that you replied to?

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: BallReviews-TECH on June 09, 2012, 08:56:22 AM

Posts made in the for sale boards are not shown on the home page most recent list.

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: MC on June 09, 2012, 11:49:29 PM

Why not??? those are the ones that are most often "refreshed"?

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: Strider on June 09, 2012, 11:57:04 PM

That's probably the point.  If the front page were nothing but posts for people selling or buying things (most of which are "bumps" ), it might make new people think that's all the site was about.  The idea of a bump is to keep the topic active withing the intended forum, not the front page.  People buying/selling things know where to go; it doesn't need to be splashed on the front page.  Over and over, and over, and...

Title: Re: Do our posts go to top of list if we bump?
Post by: scotts33 on June 10, 2012, 06:57:54 PM

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That's probably the point.  If the front page were nothing but posts for people selling or buying things (most of which are "bumps" ), it might make new people think that's all the site was about. The idea of a bump is to keep the topic active withing the intended forum, not the front page.  People buying/selling things know where to go; it doesn't need to be splashed on the front page.  Over and over, and over, and...

Gee you could have fooled me....I thought that is what this site is ALL about.   :)