[AlexisMedia]

I PM'd Lynn and she was kind enough to reply back on the discussion.

Bottom line is that my thread question is answered by her post above as I didn't realize that this was a mod. I thought all vBulletin forums had this now as I've ran into it before. But apparently mine won't do auto-merging by default so we are good.

Additional posts are allowed after 24 hours which is fair for *bumps*

My only problem with the whole system on this forum is that I wasn't originally trying to bump a thread but add additional info to it. Maybe those who viewed my thread and continued on without answering would have now been able to answer based on the new information provided. But they would never revisit that thread because they don't know additional information was provided. Being a support forum this happens often I'd assume so it's too bad that the system auto-merges in these cases.

I guess in a perfect world the vBulletin system would re-bold threads or put an obvious status icon indicating that new information has been added to a thread. Without repositioning that thread back to the top of the list as to avoid the *bump* issue.