How do I bump up a thread?

the mama · 03-19-2008, 10:21 AM

A couple of times I've posted a thread, but it happened to be in the midst of several hot topics, and it just got shuffled on down and to the next page.

I really wanted an answer to my question, but no one was going to see it anymore, and I wanted to bump it up once, to see if I had better luck.

But, when I reply to myself, it just gets added to the first message, and not bumped.

Is there a way around this?

Shaina · 03-19-2008, 10:27 AM

Well you can only have 4 smilies or images per post, so if you have any in the first post then reply to yourself with enough smilies that the total is greater then four, it will make it a separate message.

Not elegant, but it does work.

RonE · 03-19-2008, 10:47 AM

A couple of other tips:

Make the topic title as descriptive as possible. Most of us scroll through all the topics that are new, or have new postings, since we were last on line, so it doesn't get "lost" just because it's on the second or third page.

Topics with title like, "Need Help" get lost very easily. (I'm not suggesting this was your problem - just that it happens a lot.)

Sometimes people don't respond because the question is either so broad, ("What kind of dog should I get? I like dogs with four legs.") or so exotic and specific that nobody knows the answer.