# Bumping a thread more than once **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 17, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929 "2015-04-17T17:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/1 "2015-04-17T17:48:38Z")
I posted [these questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753259) (about cold viruses) in GQ two weeks ago. It got zero relevant replies. One reply was a bump from another interested person (Thanks, **Apollon**!), one was a bump from me, and a final reply was wildly off-topic. I’m still very interested in the questions in my OP. The forum guidelines say not to bump it again. I’d like to bump it again and maybe add a “reduced” version of the OP, in case it was too much of a wall of text. Advice on how to proceed? I suppose I can just let the thread die, but… come on, those are good questions, no? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/2 "2015-04-17T22:01:23Z")
I better bump this thread before it sinks to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/3 "2015-04-18T00:10:13Z")
Those are interesting questions, but there’s probably a small set of posters who could answer them. Maybe send PMs to the usual suspects to see if they can contribute? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/4 "2015-04-18T01:03:57Z")
> [@Pasta](#): > > and a final reply was wildly off-topic. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. A wildly off-topic reply could be all it takes to get someone marginally familiar with the topic to go do a bunch of research to find an actual answer to your question, just to refute something shockingly off-base. ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/5 "2015-04-18T02:28:59Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. A wildly off-topic reply could be all it takes to get someone marginally familiar with the topic to go do a bunch of research to find an actual answer to your question, just to refute something shockingly off-base. On-topic-but-wrong could incite such action. Fully off topic, not so much. In any case, yes, I was happy for that bump when it happened, but now I can only characterize it as what it is. > [@TroutMan](#): > > Maybe send PMs to the usual suspects to see if they can contribute? A good suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-a-thread-more-than-once/717929/6 "2015-04-18T02:30:41Z")
Your questions look like a good example of the situation where it is better to find a relevant specialized forum and ask your questions there.