# Reminder on bumping thread etiquette/preferences?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531>\
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**Created:** [February 11, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531 "2010-02-11T06:17:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531/1 "2010-02-11T06:17:47Z")

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I want to post a IMHO thread about my musings about getting the H1N1 vaccine. There is a perfectly good thread about it (WITH a poll!) whose last post was 12/19/09.

What are mod preferences on whether I should start a new thread or not? The time passed here is around that mark that my judgment finds ambiguous.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531/2 "2010-02-11T12:13:00Z")

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Go ahead and start a new thread, and link to the old one.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531/3 "2010-02-11T15:14:10Z")

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> [@Leaper](#):
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> I want to post a IMHO thread about my musings about getting the H1N1 vaccine. There is a perfectly good thread about it (WITH a poll!) whose last post was 12/19/09.
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> What are mod preferences on whether I should start a new thread or not? The time passed here is around that mark that my judgment finds ambiguous.
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> Thanks!

That poll is very out of date if it’s the thread I’m thinking of.

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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-on-bumping-thread-etiquette-preferences/528531/4 "2010-02-11T17:50:22Z")

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Back in March, I bumped a CS thread exactly one year to the minute after the OP was posted. (Mind you, the OP was mine so it had attracted zero replies in the intervening 365 days.)

Is this a record?