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Ryu

So, maybe I'm just getting a bit touchy but....

Maybe limiting the amount of bumps someone can do to their own post. Or limit how many of their posts they can bump at least in the Looking for RP section.

Especially when there are quite a view Looking for RP threads by the same person that are constantly being bumped up to the top. Only for the sake of diversity and for giving other people's threads a chance to stand on the front page for more than a couple of hours because an old thread is bumped up to the top along with other threads started by the same player.

I'm not faulting someone for casting a wide net and having a lot of ideas, but over saturating the front page seems a little unfair to others in my opinion.

I'd like to hear other people's thoughts and maybe we could come up with a positive solution if a limit isn't possible?
Kim Site Admin

Bumping is discouraged, but allowed if the topic is no longer on the front page of a forum. Adding a limit to bumps makes little sense if the person is still seeking takers for a RP concept, or the concept has become relevant multiple times throughout its life. It would encourage simply starting new topics instead of reusing old ones.

The Find RP search tool was designed with lots of features intended to combat this precise issue. Here's an excerpt from an older thread where I explained..
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when you run a search, results are returned in random order so as to try and put different selections in front of you as often as possible, and not punish still-active threads that were perhaps posted earlier than some others. In other words, I'm trying to defeat the issue of a busy forum pushing still-valid topics off the front page and causing them to go dead, by eliminating chronological ordering. The early reports on this have been very positive, even with the LFRP forum twice as busy as before and routinely dropping topics off the front page before they are even 24 hours old.

The finder returns 20 games, max. Even when there's 50 games available. So if your search criteria are very broad, often times refreshing your search will give you a slightly different selection. On the other hand, if your search criteria were very targeted, it will typically just change the order of the results but not the results themselves.

Here's where paging comes in: this means that breaking it across pages is not very viable, as there's not a good way for me to know what you actually saw on page 1 -- it was random.

At the time I wrote the above, it wasn't yet possible to mark a RP concept as uninteresting to you and have it semi-permanently removed from RP Finder search results that are displayed to you, but it is possible now, which can make even constant bumping of a topic you aren't interested in not affect you.

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