Is the use of "Bump" "Annoying and lazy" or progressive and efficient? Personally I think the latter for its use resulted in:
1) Bringing a unanswered question back to the front,
2) Getting the question answered,
2) Educating those on the meaning of the internet slang "bump",
3) While providing a little humor around cryptic messages.
All brought to you by the silly little word "Bump".
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Matthew Geier <matthew@...> wrote:
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>
> > What the **** does "bump" mean? As I live in the Netherlands english
> > is my second (third or even fourth?) language but these american
> > slangwords mean nothing to me. Please explain.
> > Although there are many specific american issues debated here it is
> > still a very international group with lots of topics for everybody.
> > Please have some mercy with us from "abroad".
> >
> It's not actually American specific, but it is Internet slang, and it
> comes from people using web based message boards where the most recently
> used message 'threads' are at the top of the page. Some one will 'bump'
> an old topic to the top by posting a 'zero content reply', thus making
> the thread active again, thus 'bumping' the thread back to the top of
> the active thread list.
>
> Many people have taken to writing 'bump' when they want to bump up an
> old thread in the hope that new attention will be paid to the subject.
>
>
> It makes little sense on a mailing list where most people will be
> reading messages in strict chronological order, but presumably has had
> the desired effect of getting every one to read the original message again.
>
> Personally I find it annoying and lazy, but I do see it a lot,
> particularly on message boards with high message turnover. People want
> their message threads to stay on the first page...
>
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