Bumping Threads
#26
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Bumping Threads
I have wondered whether members who have long since left the site, but have enabled e-mail notifications, are surprised when they suddenly receive a thread activity notice.
#28
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Bumping Threads
I also get surprised to see members who are still suspended... years after the suspension started. I thought that suspensions were temporary. Unless there are permanent suspensions why not just ban the person?
#29
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Bumping Threads
I always assumed that the suspended person never returned. That perhaps if they logged in, their privileges would automatically be restored. I have nothing to base this assumption on. Perhaps someone else with experience can shed some light on this.
#30
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Bumping Threads
I also get surprised to see members who are still suspended... years after the suspension started. I thought that suspensions were temporary. Unless there are permanent suspensions why not just ban the person?
#31
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Bumping Threads
My biggest peeve about bumped threads is I don't always normally assume it's a bumped thread. Sometimes, I find myself quoting and responding to someone and realizing that they haven't posted here in years.
I don't think that the forum software could do this, but I'd love it if it was possible for bumped threads to change the color of older posts if there's a significant amount of lapsed time between the old posts and the bump.
I don't think that the forum software could do this, but I'd love it if it was possible for bumped threads to change the color of older posts if there's a significant amount of lapsed time between the old posts and the bump.
#32
Challenge Guru & Comic Nerd
Re: Bumping Threads
Even if the person you're quoting never sees your post, your post is just as relevant to the thread as any other post.
#33
Admin
Re: Bumping Threads
I think it was probably a case of poster was suspended for a month let's say. Both the poster and the mods forgot about it and the poster's status never changed because they never tried to come back.
#36
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Re: Bumping Threads
But why does that even matter? I don't look at this post, for example, as being specific to you and I; every post in every thread 'belongs' to the community-at-large, the individuals don't really matter.
Even if the person you're quoting never sees your post, your post is just as relevant to the thread as any other post.
Even if the person you're quoting never sees your post, your post is just as relevant to the thread as any other post.
#38
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Bumping Threads
Every once in a while I think about bumping that "Do you ever feel like a thread killer..." thread but then decide it's best to keep that thread dead.