'Bumping up' topics

[FrancisB]

Usually, on forums, when there is a reply to a thread/topic, it gets 'bumped up' i.e. automatically moved to the top of the forum. Why isnt the same done here? It would save a lot of people from having to trawl through the pages.

[THECORBYLOON]

There's a "most recently answered" tab in each Topic that you can use instead.

[dot.hawkes]

this 'Bumping up' thing sounds a little bit too physical for the users on this site, they are a lazy bunch and need to be wrapped in cotton wool half the time, it would never catch on, now, 'Bumped Off' that's a concept i could get my head round.

[gen2]

If each newly answered question is promoted to the top of the league, then unanswered questions would soon become relegated. At least the current system gives questions a fair chance of being answered.

[admarlow]

I have been asking for this for years!! what FrancisB means is related to answers not questions, so when you answer a question, the most recent answer is shown 1st and the 1st answer is last. This is much more user friendly.

[Octavius]

So the threads with 143 answers on, the colour of my socks, would always be top? Cool!

[admarlow]

the thing is though, once a thread gets upto 143 etc, 99% of the people looking at it will have already read the other stuff and be part of an ongoing debate.

[kempie]

admarlow - thread bumping has nothing to do with the order of the answers within a thread. It is a mechanism for promoting newly answered threads to the top of the thread list, which is achieved on this forum by use of the method highlighted by TCL.