[ADDED]: Raise the bump limit from 3 days to 7

Posted 5 years, 5 months ago (Edited 5 years, 4 months ago) by hedgemaze

I'm sure I've made or supported this suggestion somewhere before, but this is annoying enough that I think it deserves its own post.

As it stands now, posts that haven't been commented on in three days cannot be bumped using the bump button. I'm sure there are good intentions behind making old posts unable to be resurrected without contributing to them by making a comment, but I'm not sure why the limit is three days? Three days is an incredibly short amount of time, especially for active subforums like the Forum Games and the Art Games, and threads that are still in active use can easily get buried and go without a comment for three days.

The way Forum Games and Art Games work, there are normally rules that say you can't reply again until a certain number of other people have posted or a certain amount of time has elapsed, so often you might want to bump a thread that it's too soon for you to reply in-- or if you were the last post, replying again won't bump the thread anyway.

To bump one of these threads, you have to write some awkward bump comment (or if you were already the last person, do the comment + bump button combo to actually bump it) to revive it, so... the limit isn't actually stopping anyone from bumping anything, if that was the intention? It's just inconvenient and makes threads messy, so I'm not sure the feature is working as intended?

Regardless, I was wondering if the limit could be raised to 7 days? That seems like a fairer length of time to me.

(While I'm here talking about bumps, I'd also like to show my support for the suggestion to make it possible to disable bump notifications for thread creators.)

fuelli

+1! That would be super cool! I'm pretty embarrassed when I have to bump game threads manually, especially "slow" games :'D

Kogami

+1 this and disable bump notif too :^D I don't like seeing good threads die so fast and it's even awkward if you replied to the thread and it's still dead after 3 days ahdahgda

Lilina

+1

I agree with everyone else. I would love to see an extension to the bump limit!

dogstarlite

+1 please we're dying

Waltz

Forwarded this on to the admins, and! 

"Thanks for passing this on! We've made the following changes:

  • Bump limit raised from 3 to 7 days
  • You can now alter your thread subscriptions to track posts, bumps, or poll votes 
  • Anonymous polls now never notify 

Hope that helps."

hedgemaze

Waltz Praise be ;__;

Lilina

Waltz

PREACH THE ADMINS

dogstarlite

god bless u, TH admins