It's nice to be able to bump things that might benefit from more exposure, but it's not so nice when it comes to spotting new things and watching old ones. I like to keep track of what's going on, and it's harder when the new things get buried under gigantic old things. It's easy enough to scroll down to find a thread you're already involved in if you know where it is in relation to other stuff; it's harder when the order changes all the time. For me, the benefits aren't outweighing the drawbacks.

Also, seconding Data and others: for as long as we're keeping bump mode, if a conversation you're in with just one or two others starts getting long and you want to keep talking, please take the conversation elsewhere out of courtesy for those not involved.

~Neshomeh

But people are right, IN THAT my and Himo's long convos were getting to be quite a pain.

I dunno, I'm used to thread-bumping. Survival of the Fittest, right?

I always prefer bumping threads to sinking threads. If a topic is still being talked about, then it should logically remain on the front page rather than being pushed further and further back by a ceaseless tide of new stuff.

I like the old way better. This way, the board seems to fill up with long conversations between only a few people that constantly top the board, and it's more confusing trying to find new things that you might want to post on.
I vote to change it back.

Well, I find it sort of annoying, but it's also kind of helpful...
...but mostly annoying.
It's helpful because of the seeing which topics are being posted on still, but it's bad that if someone just adds a small reply to an already-long topic, it fills up the top of the screen. :|

There are negatives and positives to having the board in bump mode, just like there are with having it in sink mode. It's far too early to give any feedback at this time since it has only been a week and a half.

Those of us who have been present and are used to the board being in sink mode still expect it to be like that; habits are hard things to break when one has been used to just looking by date order for a particular thread for months or years.

Additionally, the daily post count is really high for the 'average', insamuch as there is one.

I like not having to scroll down to find a post. I also like that this way, if a topic get's updated, you know right away and don't have to keep checking that topic to see.

I like the ability to have things bumped up. It seems like it is going to add a bit of requiring people to be considerate of others and not dredge up dramatic threads days after they were last posted on, or to continue those threads that result in huge stretches of white space.Long threads can go on and get long without making the Board stretch like that. If people would make a point to post in response to a higher order of the topic instead of endlessly replying to the response directly above, then the thread could get long and not drag the Board out of shape. Or it could go to another more chat-friendly place if it's really just folks chatting.

Anyway, my rambling response is that I like the idea of it bumping up. I know when I post missions, one of my worst dreads is having someone post three or four posts right on top of it, especially stuff that will get long like newbie intros. Then the missions get out of the main view within an hour or two of being posted, and they never, ever end up with many reviews in that case (And hey, I can't say that I don't love getting reviews ;)). I've already noticed a couple of times that the bumping has brought missions back up to the top. (I include myself in that doesn't always notice covered up missions category.)

This new thing is confusing, I never know where the new threads are, and old, really really long threads keep popping up. Can we go back to the old?

I too find it harder to keep track of new threads, and I didn't find it particularly difficult to keep track of old threads I was interested in when they were just being moved slowly down.

I've found myself wanting to refer back to several threads while I work on ideas for my agents and permission piece, which was easier when they stayed in the same relative position.

While I personally don't have any problem with some of the conversations streching out endlessly, it is a little annoying to have them do that on the front page for so long.

I've been raised on forums with thread bumping, so I'm naturally prefering this to the old mode. At least I don't have to scroll down x-pages just to see any response to my thread. =s

So, it autobumps, eh? That sounds like it could get annoying fast, especially with big, long conversations getting dredged up from the bowels of the Board.

It will take a bit of getting used to, but aside from that, I think this is a huge improvement.
Of course it is a bit annoying with the huuuuuuge threads taking up all the space, but sooner or later they will get buried and fall down to page two. It will just happen a bit later than we are used to.

The huge page-stretching conversations are annoying, when they get bumped up and then you have to scroll for days to find something of interest.

As a side note to anyone and everyone who has perpetuated said conversations: We have an IRC channel for a reason. Also, email and IM clients exist. There's also a second board that is hardly used, which doesn't bump, as far as I know. Use one of these other options, please. It's cool that you've made friends, but when your conversation hits the point where it takes up so much space that people have to scroll down the equivalent of two or three screens, and it's just two people talking, you should maybe switch to another medium to continue, for everyone else's sake.

I'm rather new here, so I don't actually put much thought into this 'bump mode'.

Easy to actually figure out who's been posting new -- the other recourse is fine-toothed comb every thread you're vaguely interested in for date/time, especially once they get largerish.

And I thought old threads sticking around was the point? So that the stuff that people have interest in floats to the top, rather than having to jump back several pages?

This way's easier for me -- did you see, I've actually been posting O_O -- though I do agree large monster-conversation stretching the Board is a problem in this way.

In addition, someone who is shy might have a hard time adding their two cents to something and knowing that it will be bumped up to the top and everyone will see it.

There's just no winning with this Board, is there? :P

A sage mode would be a great idea, for threads we don't want to bump. (Like those two huuuge monster endless conversations.)

It makes it a lot harder to keep track of what's new and what isn't. You can also miss new things that people posted because they get buried.

When new missions and other written things get posted, I don't always have time to read them immediately. When that happens, I'd like to find them sitting where I left them last, rather than having to scour the entire front page to discover where they got pushed to. Especially since missions frequently don't see new comments right away and have a tendency to drop down more quickly than an active, informal discussion.

I seriously didn't notice. I'm guessing Bump mode means that every time a thread is posted in it gets moved to the top?