Oreamnos
10-18-2005, 01:13 PM
I am not sure what i think of the anti-bump feature here at vb.org
A couple of problems with the anti-bump feature:
I live in asia and i usually post my questions when a lot of folks are offline, therefore they get lost and unanswered. I need to bump sometimes to get my question seen.
If you are not going to allow bumping, please make this clear to the user telling them that their original thread has been updated and that their new post has not been lost. I posted a bump message 3 times before i realized that it was being appended to my original message. You should at least tell me what you did and why with a "redirect" message.
Lastly, it seems (though not extensively tested) that even if a user is not BUMPing a thread but merely posting the solution to their question, it still gets appended to their thread. So, while this does make some sense, if another user comes across this thread and finds the problem is the same as theirs but sees 0 replies, they are going to post the same thread again.
Different ways to handle bumping:
If you are worried about threads being filled with a lot of bump messages, how about updating the post dateline with the bump date and append the thread title with a message like "Thread BUMPed at 10-19-05".
Or you could allow the user to BUMP their thread only one time.
If you totally want to disallow bumping (which will just result in threads being re-posted), then please make it known to the user what is happening. These methods would still require a redirect message telling the user what they had done and possibly why they can't bump their thread again.
Anyway, just some feedback after experiencing the anti-bump feature and what i thought about it and its usuability.
eric
A couple of problems with the anti-bump feature:
I live in asia and i usually post my questions when a lot of folks are offline, therefore they get lost and unanswered. I need to bump sometimes to get my question seen.
If you are not going to allow bumping, please make this clear to the user telling them that their original thread has been updated and that their new post has not been lost. I posted a bump message 3 times before i realized that it was being appended to my original message. You should at least tell me what you did and why with a "redirect" message.
Lastly, it seems (though not extensively tested) that even if a user is not BUMPing a thread but merely posting the solution to their question, it still gets appended to their thread. So, while this does make some sense, if another user comes across this thread and finds the problem is the same as theirs but sees 0 replies, they are going to post the same thread again.
Different ways to handle bumping:
If you are worried about threads being filled with a lot of bump messages, how about updating the post dateline with the bump date and append the thread title with a message like "Thread BUMPed at 10-19-05".
Or you could allow the user to BUMP their thread only one time.
If you totally want to disallow bumping (which will just result in threads being re-posted), then please make it known to the user what is happening. These methods would still require a redirect message telling the user what they had done and possibly why they can't bump their thread again.
Anyway, just some feedback after experiencing the anti-bump feature and what i thought about it and its usuability.
eric