Is this unreasonable when posting?

[RogerBannister]

If I made a post quite early on a Saturday morning, if nobody had responded within 5 minutes would I be unreasonable to bump the thread with an impatient ‘Anyone?’ or ‘Hello?’ Or should I just accept that people are probably still asleep or occupied with other things at that time of the day and I shouldn’t expect posters to drop everything and answer me immediately?

Anyone?

I would give it a while and bump x

Five minutes is a bit soon for a bump. I'd give it at least half an hour, unless you're posting about something extremely urgent, in which case you'd probably be best advised to seek RL support anyway.

Depends on the post.
If it doesn't appeal, no body answers.

Five minutes is a bit soon. It can take me that long to scroll through other posts.

bump

If you want people to pay attention to you and help you then impatient and sarcastic bumping is likely to be counterproductive

People will read just aren't responding, which normally means it is boring. leave it 30min-hour before bumping, def not 5 min lol

5 minutes is ridiculously impatient. I'd give it at least a couple of hours.

Never put "bump" on your own post though. Makes you look like a dickhead of desperation who doesn't have the courtesy to type out a full sentence. There's something about "bump" on its own on a users own post that I find SO irritating. It's like demanding an answer and so self entitled that you can't even be bothered to ask nicely for advice.

Just write something short and polite asking for a response to raise it to the top.

5 minutes is no time at all. Might not be that it's boring, just that people don't know the answer/don't know what to say.

People don't have a duty to answer you.

Have you made your thread title specific enough, OP?

Sometimes people just put 'advice needed' or 'AIBU' without any other details, and that can make people scroll past because, when you open such threads and they're on topics to which you can contribute nothing, it's mildly irritating.

"bump" had always been the correct etiquette for an unanswered post on Mumsnet at least.

Not after 5 minutes though - that's a bit daft.

If I posted at say 8am and had no responses I may then leave til the evening (usually busier) and then give it a "bump"

Obvs it depends how quickly you need an answer. But minimum half hour doe first bump, couple of hours for subsequent bumps.

I would never bump my own post no matter how long it had been. Mumsnet is busy and I would just guess that no one was really interested which would be fine.

The most you can bump a post is twice I reckon. After that it's best to give up and see about rewording your title and reposting to try and draw people in.

Way back in the day we would have an assault on the "unanswered threads", someone would do a call to arms and we'd head off to read through them,helping where possible.

I don't know if that would work now, with how big the forum is.

I've learned to post at busier times like evenings as it's much busier then.

During the day during the week tends to be very quiet.

As is very early on a Saturday!

Blimey OP, I'd say about 80% of the drivel I post goes unanswered - because I'm too verbose and boring. I can't help it.

But if I do get a response I'm usually working and don't see it until its disappeared again!

I would possibly read back through my OP, and make any corrections / clarifications that I thought were necessary, and that would I guess bump it back up without having to explicitly say “bump”. But I wouldn’t be put off by a thread where the OP had done it, especially if it was clear they were after some urgent advice.

Far too soon for a bump, I cringe when I see bumps so soon after posting. It's like "ANSWER ME NOW!" I have the feeling the OP isn't the bumper though.

5 minutes?

What can't wait for more than 5 minutes?

If it is that life or death call the emergency services. Otherwise chill out.

Bumping is cringey and entitled, a bit like posting a thread with a short sentence and then 'discuss',
like what is this some sort of fucking exam where we are obliged to write an essay for you to critique, who do you fucking think you are 🙄

If this about someone writing you a text message and then another one 5 minutes later, YANBU. If they need an urgent response they should phone.

the very small number of threads that I have posted have mostly died without trace and I have been very grateful to anyone who has been generous enough to contribute to them 🙏

It is a bit cringey to write 'Bump' or even worse 'Bumping'. Maybe after a few hours if you really need a reply it's not too bad.

5 minutes is way too soon.

Where did you post, and what?

Context really is everything.

Bumping after 5 mins is inconceivably inpatient, I would imagine the person that does that also huffs and tuts the second they join the queue in the supermarket or beeps the car horn if the driver in front of them does not speed off with Lewis Hamilton type reactions the second the lights change to green.

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I try to make sure I visit the unanswered threads once a day but I like the thought of a gang of us diving on there to help out where we can