# bumping posts up the board?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-posts-up-the-board/1380>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 15, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-posts-up-the-board/1380 "2000-04-15T22:38:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-posts-up-the-board/1380/1 "2000-04-15T22:38:00Z")

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Is posting to a thread just to bring it to the top of the board ok in any circumstances or will it bring the wrath of the board down on your head ?

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-posts-up-the-board/1380/2 "2000-04-15T22:46:00Z")

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We just had a discussion on this a few days ago:  
[Bumping threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000885.html)

We didn’t arrive at **God’s Truth** on the subject, but you can find several views represented.

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Tom~

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-posts-up-the-board/1380/3 "2000-04-16T00:04:00Z")

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thx Tom .