What on earth is 'BUMPING'?

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See lots of people doing it?
How does one do it?
Why does one do it?

Sorry, not being lazy have searched the site for this and found nothing - glad of some explanation, ta

It's to stop messages dropping off the bottom of active conversations list.

When you post a message, your thread goes to the top of the message board so people write "bump" to move (bump) the thread back up to the top.

when you write bumping you are making it become active

welcome to mumsnet btw

Some people just put

.

Does the same job.

(If you don't use "active conversations" you won't realise the significance. It was ages before I did!)

Bump.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Thanks.
What if I was telling you about a "bump" on my head? Would it was be shimmied up there? I guess you have to be careful of overusing it.

How clever.

I asked this question the other day, and I've just realised that I hadn't understood the answer properly. Now that I've read this explanation i realise the word is immaterial, it just has to be a post. There I was thinking it was something amazingly technological, and now I know that without using the four letter word in question, this thread will be at the top of the active conversations list again.

Just as mine is now.

bump

and mine!!!!!!!

Ahh ha have been wondering about the four letter word myself.....now I know

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hic

BUMP = BRING UP MY POST

Pickledonion - is that really what bump stands ofr or did you just make that up?

When I was new, I thought it was just alot of pregnant women boasting, seriously I did!

Took me forever to figure it out too!

Lonelymum- that is what BUMP stand for in internet language