Bumping Poll

[Davidc5]

There have been incidents of individuals being reported for bumping. Personally, I've been a member for several years and never once heard of that happening until now. Having been a buyer and a seller, both on several occasions, I personally feel that once a week bumping is good for all interested parties. So here is a poll — lets see what you think.

 

[JackBroChill]

I've only really been a part of the forum for a few years now, but I had never known there were any rules around bumping until that thread recently popped up considering I have seen countless classifieds being bumped almost every single time I check the forum.

90% of the time, I don't mind and in fact think it's best to be able to bump classified threads. The search function on forums like this is not great and there's no great way to curate what's available without changing the nature of the forum, so a simple 'most recent first' format works best, IMO, and occasional bumping keeps the classified pages refreshed without being overwhelming or without having to dig too far into the back pages to know what's available. Right now there's not so much traffic where bumping clogs up an otherwise busy forum.

I can't imagine how someone would find something for sale 4 months ago without it being bumped, for instance (and sometimes it just takes the right buyer seeing something they wouldn't have otherwise). Bumping also saves as an easy indicator that something is still available rather than someone de facto bumping it by asking that question on an older post in the first place.

I don't know what the 'right' rule would be here, and considering there's only about one or two examples I can recall of truly excessive bumping (which should be self evident to any conscious seller when it's 10+ bump posts without any interest in the span of not very much time) I don't really know if a new or tweaked rule is entirely necessary....just seems like you know it when you see it. But I do think a once per week bump (which even feels excessive if it was my post, but no sweat off the forum's back if someone does that) as well as limiting how many items one can bump at once (there are times where someone has about 7 threads clogging the page which feels unnecessary) would be prudent.

But again, I would say that this seems like a solution in search of a problem short of the two or three times I can think of where I felt like someone should be shamed for excessive bumping. And even then, it's easy enough to ignore and move on.

 

[Bfd70]

Everyone wants to be on page 1. bumps should require a price drop.

 

[Jonanah]

Everyone wants to be on page 1. bumps should require a price drop.

I totally understand why one world want that, but then there will probably be compensatory higher pricing to build in room to bump. I’m personally more in favor of just trying to enforce a norm of reasonable cadence

 

[Mrkurtz]

I too was unaware until just now that there were restrictions on bumping. I guess allowing bumping once a week would be ok. I have noticed that the search function is really not very comprehensive.

 

[postman10mm]

I set the ‘first post’ file yet and bookmarked it, I can kill the filter to see what’s bumped to the top, but rarely do

 

[soundwavvves]

My 2¢: if the price isn’t being lowered by 10% or more then leave it where it is and throw it on eBay. Unchanging posts with little to no interest don’t need to be repeatedly pushed to the top of the stack.

 

[puiyc1203]

my post got deleted too for bumping, but i bump only every two or three weeks. but the question is, even if the word 'bump' is banned, people still could get a way to bump, like 'still available', 'price change', 'price changed back', use another account send 'interested', post a pic, many ways as long as they're not using the word 'bump'. Without bumping, its hard to find your post. And a post months ago with no bumping, people interested may not even pm to ask if still available, basically thought that its inactive and sold. Bumping at least remind people of updating their post status here in the forum.
if bumping do affect the search, i think the rule should be changed to, people can delete their own early bumps, only leaving the latest 1-2 bumps there for not annoying the searching function.

 

[BarryMcCockiner_PhD]

Can’t wait for the “Grinding” poll…

 

[Bennarion]

It is wise to update the theme once a month.

 

[Jonanah]

Another thought: I think it would be nice to encourage bundling of mass listings, because it can be frustrating when one user clogs the feed with clusters of bumped posts. Not as a formally enforced rule per se but as a best practice

 

[ProteinNerd]

Another thought: I think it would be nice to encourage bundling of mass listings, because it can be frustrating when one user clogs the feed with clusters of bumped posts. Not as a formally enforced rule per se but as a best practice

I couldn't disagree more. It would make it impossible to search for anything if a heap of unrelated items all have to be bundled into one post.

 

[Jonanah]

I couldn't disagree more. It would make it impossible to search for anything if a heap of unrelated items all have to be bundled into one post.

The search function pulls more than just titles. But yes it could make the process of looking for a specific past losing slightly slower. Though only a few instances come to mind for me when I think of the kind of mass listing/bumping I’m talking about, so I think it would be a very minor compromising of ease of searching in exchange for a big boon to the functioning of active classifieds. Not a hill I’m willing to die on, just thought it could be nice

 

[LordOfLeather]

I do appreciate reasonable bumps. I sometimes go months without looking at the Classifieds (when I'm trying to be "good"), and have made some great purchases of items that had been bumped, but otherwise would have been back too far for me to possibly see.

 

[dinhnguyen57]

-Bumping should be permitted.
-Once a week bumping seems excessive. Personally in the past I would bump once a month with a lowered price. But I do not think this should be a requirement. And given that most do not know the bumping rules, I suspect this this will be an ongoing problem for future members or members who are not as active on this site.
-I do not see excessive bumping in recent history that would make it unattractive to visit the site so I would not necessarily make restrictions on bumping.

 

[TartuWolf]

In my opinion - bump away as much as you want - I don't care because I use sorting by creation, not by updates:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/forums/classifieds.15/?order=post_date&direction=desc