Bumping posts, how to deal with them?

[RoadRash]

I recive a few "bump" posts on my forum a week, and there starting to tick off some of my long time members. How should i deal with these posts? How do you deal with them?

[klassicd]

Its hard to deal with bumping posts scripting wise. I would suggest just making a no bumping rule and ban or punish the people that do. Im not sure what else you could do.

[samsm]

What is bumping posts? Is that replying to threads youself just to keep them alive?

[qslack]

*bump*

Yeah, it is. It's really annoying.

If people don't answer your post the first time, you either need to rewrite your problem or put a little effort into finding the solution yourself.

[samsm]

How about setting the forum so that a person can't reply to their own post? They could still edit, maybe, but not post until someone else posts.

[mjames]

Well, in vB and a few other forums, there is of course the option to "stick" a thread so it stays towards the top. If you don't prefer that (too many can be a negative), I know for a fact there are hacks to keep threads up and bump them automatically at vBulletin.org.