Is This Thread Bumping?

[jamestl2]

I just wanted to be clarified about “bumping”

 

Say in a thread I created and posted last in, I didn’t get all my questions about the topic answered. So is it against the rules to add another post to ask more questions? Is this considered illegally “bumping” the thread? Or should I wait for someone else to post so I can ask? Or should I start a new topic to get my new questions resolved?

 

Just don’t want to violate the rules,

Thanks

[abinidi]

I think forum moderators look more at intent when determining what is thread bumping. I have posted twice in succession to the same thread, and nobody has ever slapped my hand for thread bumping, but I've never posted for the purpose of bumping the thread.

 

It seems if you have related, but different questions, you can add them to the thread and hope somebody else answers. I think you'd only get into trouble if you were to do this repeatedly, or if it is obvious that you are just trying to redirect attention to your post. The forum moderators want you to get the help you need, and if you are genuinely adding new information to your request, they don't mind an occasional successive post.

 

However, I am not a forum moderator, nor TCH employee. An official pronouncement will have to come from one of them.

[TCH-Thomas]

Bumping for us is when someone posts repeatedly to get peoples attention for unanswered questions. Adding other but related questions to a thread you started is not seen as bumping.

 

We read all posts and tries to respond to every single one but we can not know the answers to all of them.

 

However this is a user to user forum which means that anyone who happens to know the answer to a question may answer.

 

If a question gets unanswered, it simply means that no one knows the answer to that specific question.

[jamestl2]

Bumping for us is when someone posts repeatedly to get peoples attention for unanswered questions. Adding other but related questions to a thread you started is not seen as bumping.

 

Alright thanks, does this still apply even if the thread is days, or even weeks old?

[MikeJ]

Basically if you are responding to your own thread, and your response itself has no purpose other than to make the thread new again (i.e., you have no additional information or questions), then it's bumping.

 

If you have a thread that is days or weeks old with no response, try rephrasing your question in your reply, as it's likely that no one responded because they either don't know the answer, or didn't understand the question.