I know well that if you make two or more posts in a row on a thread -- meaning in a row, with no comments from others appearing in between them -- that only the first of these posts will bump the thread. And of course that makes sense.
But I've definitely posted a number of things where I wasn't doing two posts in a row, and it didn't bump the thread to the top. Just curious what other factors in a post might defeat thread bumping.
Good question Each thread has a "last reply" date and a "last effective reply" date. Unless you have the bump filter turned off in your preferences, the threads will sort by the last effective reply date. Both dates will be the same unless the latest reply trips more than 3 bump criteria, in which case the previous reply's date will be considered to represent the thread's last effective reply date, and so on.
Here is a basic list of the criteria, which I tweak from time to time: Original poster replying to their own thread, same person replying to their own reply within a certain time frame, reply comes from the same IP as the last reply, reply is more than a day later than the last reply, reply is more than 3 days since the last reply, number of replies by this user is over a certain percentage of total thread replies, person replying is a "best friend" of the original poster, and reply along with a few dozen previous replies were very short (for threads like pie-every-day).
This is just a basic list, not the actual algo, but you get the point. Again, all subject to tweaks!
Messmaster said: Good question Each thread has a "last reply" date and a "last effective reply" date. Unless you have the bump filter turned off in your preferences, the threads will sort by the last effective reply date. Both dates will be the same unless the latest reply trips more than 3 bump criteria, in which case the previous reply's date will be considered to represent the thread's last effective reply date, and so on.
Here is a basic list of the criteria, which I tweak from time to time: Original poster replying to their own thread, same person replying to their own reply within a certain time frame, reply comes from the same IP as the last reply, reply is more than a day later than the last reply, reply is more than 3 days since the last reply, number of replies by this user is over a certain percentage of total thread replies, person replying is a "best friend" of the original poster, and reply along with a few dozen previous replies were very short (for threads like pie-every-day).
This is just a basic list, not the actual algo, but you get the point. Again, all subject to tweaks!
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Each thread has a "last reply" date and a "last effective reply" date. Unless you have the bump filter turned off in your preferences, the threads will sort by the last effective reply date. Both dates will be the same unless the latest reply trips more than 3 bump criteria, in which case the previous reply's date will be considered to represent the thread's last effective reply date, and so on. 
