Bump up the jam

[gummibear95]

ive noticed that on the runescape forums, it is a constant battel to make your thread noticed, usualy by having it on the top of the pile.

 

 

 

so commonly, people will just spam bump, messages to keep their thread at the top of the list.

 

 

 

it gets realy annoyin, because your thread only occupies the top spot for 0.5 seconds before some1 bumps up and knocks you down.

 

 

 

Edit: so do you think this is right or wrong? lots of people put time and effort into bumpin thier threads, but while this makes it so that the good threads rise to the top, new threads never get a chance to get started.

 

 

 

personaly, I think its wrong, but i cant find a solution

[kingbrooks]

bump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

[The_dmt1234]

you obviously werent around before the bump link, somehow i have 1200 posts on rsof, i think its coz i bumped my thigns so much

 

 

 

oh and i doubt anyone looks onto the second page

 

 

 

before ge your thread would be on page 1 for 0.5 seconds if you didn't bump it constantly

[funnisam]

^^

 

 

 

knows a lot about this, from his experience in selling me well over 3 million fire runes

[Zaaps1]

Solution: none. RSOF is terrible anyway. I would never consider relying on it to sell something, unless that item was in extremely high demand.

 

 

 

Although you COULD add a timer for when you can post again, that would really annoy the people who post long, productive, and useful posts, such as Zarfot's guides.

[Pythonic]

With the limited features JaGEx gives us on the official forums we can't really do much. I can't think of a single plausible solution to this dilemma. Either way the official forums are pretty useless, nobody really views them (well at least, not the sections that should be viewed). My advice to JaGEx: new forums, now.

[klankaos]

ive noticed that on the runescape forums, it is a constant battel to make your thread noticed, usualy by having it on the top of the pile.

 

 

 

so commonly, people will just spam bump, messages to keep their thread at the top of the list.

 

 

 

it gets realy annoyin, because your thread only occupies the top spot for 0.5 seconds before some1 bumps up and knocks you down.

 

 

 

plz post your thoughts on this, and possibly solutions

 

 

 

What are your thoughts/possible solutions on this? I'd like to hear what you think, considering you're the OP and all. Make this into a debate! We're in DC, not general =P

 

 

 

Although you COULD add a timer for when you can post again, that would really annoy the people who post long, productive, and useful posts, such as Zarfot's guides.

 

 

 

This is a fairly legit idea. But you've hit on the only problem. Maybe have people who are going to post lengthy posts that are worthwhile contact a forum mod and build in some code so that the forum mods can remove the restriction from select users for a certain period of time?

 

 

 

Another idea is that forum mods could crack down harder on people bumping their posts with posts rather than the bump button. Maybe warning - > one-day ban -> three-day -> seven-day -> permanent? Give everyone plenty of warning before you make the switch, but come down hard on people who abuse the system when there's a perfectly legitimate one in place for the same purpose.

 

 

 

With the limited features JaGEx gives us on the official forums we can't really do much. I can't think of a single plausible solution to this dilemma. Either way the official forums are pretty useless, nobody really views them (well at least, not the sections that should be viewed). My advice to JaGEx: new forums, now.

 

 

 

So what would they do differently with new forums? They handle the issues they have well within their ability, and changing the URL of the forums, or even clearing all the old posts off the one they have, is going to do nothing. The solution lies in correcting the problem, not in leaving it and moving on while committing the same mistakes and exacerbating the same problems.

[Zaaps1]

Although you COULD add a timer for when you can post again, that would really annoy the people who post long, productive, and useful posts, such as Zarfot's guides.

 

 

 

This is a fairly legit idea. But you've hit on the only problem. Maybe have people who are going to post lengthy posts that are worthwhile contact a forum mod and build in some code so that the forum mods can remove the restriction from select users for a certain period of time?

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's probably more effort than it's worth. Easiest solution is to just extent the character limit to much, much higher, like TIF's or better.

 

 

 

But then ANOTHER problem would arise of long, spammy walls of text by some bored noobs.

 

 

 

Which could be solved by not allowing the same word/phrase repeated 5 times in a row

 

 

 

Hmm....can't think of anything bad, although the person could just alternate between 2 different words, spamming each 5 times then switching. Let's be honest we KNOW it WILL happen.

[klankaos]

That's probably more effort than it's worth. Easiest solution is to just extent the character limit to much, much higher, like TIF's or better.

 

 

 

But then ANOTHER problem would arise of long, spammy walls of text by some bored noobs.

 

 

 

Which could be solved by not allowing the same word/phrase repeated 5 times in a row

 

 

 

Hmm....can't think of anything bad, although the person could just alternate between 2 different words, spamming each 5 times then switching. Let's be honest we KNOW it WILL happen.

 

 

 

This would still be better than having the word 'bump' plastered over a thousand posts, wouldn't it?

 

 

 

Either way, the moderators can still have a crack-down on spamming. It's not generally hard to find, and if you implement a report feature (does the RSOF have one already? Haven't been there in nearly a year) then it makes it even easier for mods to deal with this kind of thing. Sure it'll be done, but overall it'll make the forums a lot cleaner if you up the character limit. Or maybe there could be a post-count threshold at which your character limit gets raised?

[Zaaps1]

That's probably more effort than it's worth. Easiest solution is to just extent the character limit to much, much higher, like TIF's or better.

 

 

 

But then ANOTHER problem would arise of long, spammy walls of text by some bored noobs.

 

 

 

Which could be solved by not allowing the same word/phrase repeated 5 times in a row

 

 

 

Hmm....can't think of anything bad, although the person could just alternate between 2 different words, spamming each 5 times then switching. Let's be honest we KNOW it WILL happen.

 

 

 

This would still be better than having the word 'bump' plastered over a thousand posts, wouldn't it?

 

 

 

Either way, the moderators can still have a crack-down on spamming. It's not generally hard to find, and if you implement a report feature (does the RSOF have one already? Haven't been there in nearly a year) then it makes it even easier for mods to deal with this kind of thing. Sure it'll be done, but overall it'll make the forums a lot cleaner if you up the character limit. Or maybe there could be a post-count threshold at which your character limit gets raised?

 

 

 

The post-count thing is just inviting more spam.

 

 

 

I'm not sure if I'd rather have "bump" spammed or pointless topics. But I'm not the one to make that decision. It's your idea, so it's your call. That's just my input on this discussion.

[klankaos]

That's probably more effort than it's worth. Easiest solution is to just extent the character limit to much, much higher, like TIF's or better.

 

 

 

But then ANOTHER problem would arise of long, spammy walls of text by some bored noobs.

 

 

 

Which could be solved by not allowing the same word/phrase repeated 5 times in a row

 

 

 

Hmm....can't think of anything bad, although the person could just alternate between 2 different words, spamming each 5 times then switching. Let's be honest we KNOW it WILL happen.

 

 

 

This would still be better than having the word 'bump' plastered over a thousand posts, wouldn't it?

 

 

 

Either way, the moderators can still have a crack-down on spamming. It's not generally hard to find, and if you implement a report feature (does the RSOF have one already? Haven't been there in nearly a year) then it makes it even easier for mods to deal with this kind of thing. Sure it'll be done, but overall it'll make the forums a lot cleaner if you up the character limit. Or maybe there could be a post-count threshold at which your character limit gets raised?

 

 

 

The post-count thing is just inviting more spam.

 

 

 

I'm not sure if I'd rather have "bump" spammed or pointless topics. But I'm not the one to make that decision. It's your idea, so it's your call. That's just my input on this discussion.

 

 

 

Dangg, man, this is debate club! I only came in here to here other peoples' ideas presented as fact. =)

 

 

 

But I agree the post-count threshold is a bad idea. So maybe just open up the character limit wide and crack down harder on spamming.

[Deathmath]

in my opinion there just aren't enough mods, and not enough enforcement. A bot to check for bumping and then report it to mods would be good, if nobody bumped it'd be great, but that's like asking all the countries to be nice and disarm.