Topic 'bumping' anyone else hate it?

bump!

Gad damn I hate it!
The attention seekers over in X-Software and X-General do it all the friggin time, but to their own threads! They start a thread, and if it drifts near the bottom of the page, they "Bump!" it themselves! Man, I wish I had a Banhammer some days...

I feel the same way as you. I just saw a thread that was "bumped". UGH

Whatever. Couldn't care less.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by chris_h:
<strong>bump!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">&lt;sarcasm&gt;I never saw that coming!&lt;/sarcasm&gt;

i only like to bump threads when theyre requesting an answer and no one has answered. then you can only give it a few bumps before you give up and assume no one knows the answer.

DIE BUMPERS, DIE!

They thrive in the X/Gen forum. It's like "I know that no one has the answer to my problem, but because I want a big post count, I'll just post here to bump my mundane thread with no answer."

GODDAMN ****TARDS!

I definetely agree it sucks. Threads don't get posted in for a reason, no need to keep them on life support.

I only partly agree. Sometimes users have posted valid technical questions to which no one has replied and then someone does. There is of course a big difference between that and KH's troll posts. I personally see OSX-General as a help area mainly, but a lot of people see it as some sort OSX extension of the Lounge where they can discuss Desktop pictures and stuff. What I really hate is certain people trolling in the OSX area and mucking up threads.

badly phrased question. "anyone else hate it?" implies that if SOMEONE out there besides you doesn't like it, the answer is yes. one may only answer no if he is completely oblivious and believes that EVERYONE else disagrees with you <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

ANYWAY, technicalities aside, it doesn't bother me

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by fobside:
<strong>i only like to bump threads when theyre requesting an answer and no one has answered. then you can only give it a few bumps before you give up and assume no one knows the answer.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">If nobody has answered then probably it mean that your topic is either boring or not clear enough.

Same as people above, I really HATE bumpers! It's so creative-less.

Hate it? That's an awfully strong term, but I don't think it's appropriate.

Despise? Loathe? Often express a desire to neuter the perpetrators with rusty spoons? That's more like it.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by AlbertWu:
<strong>badly phrased question. "anyone else hate it?" implies that if SOMEONE out there besides you doesn't like it, the answer is yes. one may only answer no if he is completely oblivious and believes that EVERYONE else disagrees with you.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Alb, u going to law school or somethin?

back on topic: ok, I've bumped a thread before, but I SWEAR it involved a technical question for which I was hoping to get answer. Besides, the "point" of a thread in the lounge can do a 180 in a single posts.

<a href="http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=45;t=003164" target="_blank">Exhibit A</a>
heheh, that was definitely one of my favorites [just b/c of all the damn secrecy involved] <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

bump

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by CaseCom:
<strong>bump</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">lol
That should keep the "bumping"-haters away from that thread now...

What thread are you refering to?

--- bump

*bumpx0r*

<img src="http://www.kabong.ca/macnn/img-endofthread.gif" alt=" - " />

Not if I have anything to say about it. Bump.

I bumped into an old friend the other day; luckily, neither one of us was hurt!

hi mom! im goin to disneyland!!!

bump

bump!

sorry, i couldn't resist.

Looking at all the volunteers bumping here...
This thread has a good chance to live very long, don't you think? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Just too bad it's not about the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

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*kah-zoing!*

Hey! Kah-zoinging works too!!!

The other day I drove down a very bumpy road.

THE PERSON THAT POSTED 5 POSTS BACK IS A TOTAL F|_|CKING TOOL

Oh yeah and BUMP



Mike

Bump.

sh1t, this thing almost made it half way down the first page of the lounge.

bumping is fer queeeeers

Well who�s the more queer??
The one who is accused of beeing a queer or the one who accuses another of beeing a queer??

and btw bump

bump

oops, that wasn't the bump button

<shrugs>

Well played.

VVV zing!

You callin' me?

Didn't you post some obscenely long post about how you weren't going to post under the MZ handle ever again, or some such nonsensical bs?

and didn't he post some big ramble about retiring Link and taking a break... only to resurrect MZ?

Doubtful. I said that about JoeG4 though..

The last topic I started with MZ:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread....threadid=207325

WHOA YOU'RE THE SAME PERSON I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED

(yeah)

No? I said I wanted to ehm.. straighten out my life. Luckily that's gone underway and I've had some spare time to waste

I *DID* change my password for link, and wrote that on a paper which I put upstairs in a closet. Out of my laziness though (the fact that every time I felt like replying I was really tired from being out all day or something and I kept forgetting about the password thing) -- I just signed on with MZ.

As of the moment neither are retired, and I don't really have any plans to retire either though I did stop using that as my primary name

You're just as sick as the rest of us.

Congradulations, for you are a true MacNN'er.

So now that I accidentally derailed this thread by bumping it, what shall we do?

... I was thinking about TPing it!

One more for the road.......the bumpy road, that is.....


Oh, and IBB.

Proof again a simple search & replace on the database would make all the old threads readable again, something that should have been done when the db was migrated to vB. Oh well.

Someone called?

Hahahahahahaaaaaa.......registered August 2002 and 26 posts. Nice!