New Rules for Bumping

SMG4fan7236

New Scratchers: Cannot bump topics unless it has been 48 hours since last post and not on first 3 pages.
Scratchers: Cannot bump topics unless it has been 24 hours since last post and not on first page.
This rule is changes for New Scratchers to combat spam, just like the 60 and 120 second cooldown between forum posts and the 2-10 and 30 second cooldown between normal comments. What do you think?

NOTE: You can say Support or No Support, but please post constructively and explain why.

Za-Chary

I'm not sure why make the convention different for Scratchers and New Scratchers, especially since the bumping rules are more of a community-led convention rather than a hard-enforced moderation rule.

IloveRoblox003

The bumping rules are simply forum etiquette. Grammar is forum etiquette as well; you dont have to follow it, even if it brings order.

Last edited by IloveRoblox003 (March 24, 2026 02:00:37)

DarthVader4Life

I, on your older topic, wrote:
Historically, there has not been a hard policy on bumping. Common practice is to wait ~24 hours and until the topic is off the front page. I and many others find this to be sufficient. I don't think the ST are going to be interested in implementing a hard policy on this matter since many would consider it unnecessary and there would be difficulty in enforcing it as such.

Basically, it is up to the community to decide whether they want to adopt this policy or not. For that reason, I don't think these types of suggestions belong in the Suggestions forum. I find it best for you to encourage this policy outside of this topic.

I don't see the need to enforce a hard policy on bumps, let alone two. I also can't think of a way to automate this without significantly impeding users' ability to discuss on the discussion forums. AI is not reliable enough to make judgment calls. That means that this would be difficult to enforce due to the volume of users on the forums, even though they are but a small portion of the main site. As others have stated, bumping conventions are a community convention, so changing it would be a suggestion for the community to implement.

floppasyay

Since bumping isn't enforced or controlled in a way (there's only really forum etiquette) it's not necessary to enforce rules as a tiny amount of people only go on the forums and there's even a very miniscule percentage of those people that would bump “incorrectly”.

AquaKelpie53

DarthVader4Life wrote:
I, on your older topic, wrote:
Historically, there has not been a hard policy on bumping. Common practice is to wait ~24 hours and until the topic is off the front page. I and many others find this to be sufficient. I don't think the ST are going to be interested in implementing a hard policy on this matter since many would consider it unnecessary and there would be difficulty in enforcing it as such.

Basically, it is up to the community to decide whether they want to adopt this policy or not. For that reason, I don't think these types of suggestions belong in the Suggestions forum. I find it best for you to encourage this policy outside of this topic.
I don't see the need to enforce a hard policy on bumps, let alone two. I also can't think of a way to automate this without significantly impeding users' ability to discuss on the discussion forums. AI is not reliable enough to make judgment calls. That means that this would be difficult to enforce due to the volume of users on the forums, even though they are but a small portion of the main site. As others have stated, bumping conventions are a community convention, so changing it would be a suggestion for the community to implement.

Theoretically you could make it so that the same user posting on a topic multiple times within 24 hours won't bump the topic, and make it do the same thing but for 48 hours for new scratchers.

That said i don't support because I agree with what others have said about bumping rules being etiquette

Edit:
I swear I posted on a topic exactly like the previous one of this by the same user like over a year ago am I going crazy or something

Last edited by AquaKelpie53 (March 24, 2026 08:33:47)

gem1001

AquaKelpie53 wrote:
I swear I posted on a topic exactly like the previous one of this by the same user like over a year ago am I going crazy or something

No

5C1AdrianAu

No support. I think the original rule is already okay.

SMG4fan7236

Bump

scratchy_boy106

No support, why should new scratchers have to wait longer to bump a post? New scratchers are the exact same as scratchers.

Last edited by scratchy_boy106 (March 25, 2026 11:03:12)

DarthVader4Life

scratchy_boy106 wrote:
No support, why should new scratchers have to wait longer to bump a post? New scratchers are the exact same as scratchers.

Well, yes, but actually no. The new scratcher status exists to dissuade/prevent trolls and bots from being able to do too much damage. As such, new scratchers have more restrictions. For example, new scratchers can't use cloud variables.

To the OP, is there a particular reason why the etiquette needs to change? Or is part of your suggestion to have the ST enforce it more? Even if so, I don't see a reason to do more than 24hrs and off the front page.

aestheticpenny

SMG4fan7236 wrote:
New Scratchers: Cannot bump topics unless it has been 48 hours since last post and not on first 3 pages.
Scratchers: Cannot bump topics unless it has been 24 hours since last post and not on first page.
This rule is changes for New Scratchers to combat spam, just like the 60 and 120 second cooldown between forum posts and the 2-10 and 30 second cooldown between normal comments. What do you think?

NOTE: You can say Support or No Support, but please post constructively and explain why.

No support. New scratchers have the right to bump too.

SMG4fan7236

aestheticpenny wrote:
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No support. New scratchers have the right to bump too.

They still would but they have a longer cooldown

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