Wtf is this forum

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why can’t we bump a topic? it says “Please wait for other users to participate before replying” everytime

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the fact that you can’t self bump topics makes up for the fact that you can no longer down vote. I am happy with that trade.

if your topic didn’t take off it’s because nobody wanted it.

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If bumping does not work go to your history,copy the text and just post a new topic.

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Which is against the forum rules and can get you banned from the forums.

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shuuuu. Let natural selection take over.

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If this single line were the only contents of the Please Read thread, that would be fine.

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which is completely stupid, it’s not our fault if we can’t bump a topic

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So we can see other threads to shine, if someone is really interested he may reply, if not, well to bad.

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Bumping threads has ALWAYS been against the forum rules… even on the old forums where it was a possibility.

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i don’t think it’s really fair there are just some times when you would like to see a topic get noticed and banning it outright doesn’t feel necessary

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have they announced anything about the matchmaking at the blizzcon? or will we still face premades when queueing solo? and let’s not forget ranks since a gm can play with/against bronze players…

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This is what they announced in Blizzcon

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no improvement then, do we know why? are they lazy?

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I just got that message “Please wait for other users to participate before replying”
it’s really annoying. I wasn’t trying to bump anything. Made a topic then checked an hour later and there was two replies. Both of them were questions so I wanted to answer them but when I tried to post a reply to the second one, I got that message. I just can’t answer their question on an hour old topic.

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because if no one has responded, it clearly is a dead topic.

Now, I do think some topics should allow bumps. Most notably “PSAs” (which really should be things Blizzard should post on the forums pinned…) such as the recent one I posted which got almost no replies about Random Favorites not working properly.

But if you have practically any other kind of post, a bump is an attempt to create discussion where non exists.

Oh, and the post in question:

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Best feature of new forum.

I hate attention ******.

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You should be able to reply to topics without bumping them. Not sure why so much forum software leaves out that possibility.

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I dislike it immensely:

Personally I prefer to reply to different people’s posts in different posts, instead of having a wall of text, as it helps maintain structure and context within each reply and continues a discussion between two people more orderly.

With the current format, this is no longer a possibility, leading to replies within threads becoming walls-of-text, thoughts (sadly) getting scrambled and some people unfortunately getting lost when attempting to follow a discussion.

The trade-off for this? People not being able to bump a post. It really does not seem a worthwhile trade.

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I figured out a workaround to reply and it won’t actually bump.
If you were able to reply to one person, you can just edit that to include a response to another person inserting a quote from their post and your response.

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