# What are your thoughts/opinions on "bumping" older threads?

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I am a '99er, so I do find it disorienting to see posts from people that I know are no longer on the board for one reason or another. No big deal, I guess. But let the currrent policy stand.

I have bumped a couple of old threads myself, but I did have relevant info.

A comment from an earlier thread on a related subject (from the late Colibri):

> [@Why isn't The Straight Dope very popular?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-straight-dope-very-popular/850837/134):
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> The vast majority of zombified threads are bumped to make an inane, stupid, or irrelevant comment, or to insult someone who last posted 10 years ago. If a comment is at all relevant, I generally will leave a thread open. I would say maybe one in fifty is bumped by someone who is making a genuine new contribution to a thread.

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