I started browsing /tg/ again after a pretty long break, and noticed there's a lot of non-general threads in the catalog that are about random worldbuilding related topics ("how does your setting deal with XYZ", etc.) that are days and days old, despite there being very little activity in those threads. In some of them, someone would angrily respond to some random inane reply with "frick yourself bumpstrag". At first I thought bumpstrag was being used as a general term for someone bumping a thread, but after seeing it used quite a lot, it became apparent that there's a board boogeyman individual referred to as "bumpstrag" infamous for keeping threads alive for days and days by bumping them with inane replies.
Having nothing better to do, I decided to do some extensive research on the topic (and by that I mean I looked up "bumpstrag" on google and 4plebs).
Turns out there's multiple PDF files on this guy:
https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1579640139044.pdf
https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1633336990007.pdf
Another thing I noticed lurking on /tg/ is that apparently, recently the mods implemented a change to how autosaging works on /tg/. I was curious to what exactly they did, and looking through archives, I found the answer:
https://archived.moe/tg/thread/89336498/#89417677
If true, it means this person is singularly responsible for mods first making all threads on /tg/ autosage after 14 days, and then going even further and making all threads on /tg/ autosage after 7 days. Which sounds hilarious to me, that a single neurodivergent could have such a massive effect on an entire board, and that the original solution they made was to autosage threads that are 14 days old, which implies that he must have kept threads alive for much longer before that. I wonder what's the longest he kept a thread up alive?
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I don't even know what "bumping" a thread even means. Is that some kind of upmarsey?
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4channel has a limited number of active threads at any given time based on the last reply (to a limit of 250 to 1000) depending on the board and by default the site will display threads in order of most recent bump.
To bump a thread is to reply to it so it goes to the top of the catalogue and prevent it from getting locked and archived. If a thread is passed the reply limit then it cannot be bumped and will eventually archive after enough new threads are made.
Previously when people cared they could add the word "sage" in the email thread to reply to a thread without bumping it. The word is taken from 2ch.
Previously too when mods were actually cared they could set a thread to "Auto Sage" and make every reply "Sage" a thread, this is still done on occasion for
low quality but non rule offending threadswhen the janny is being a cute twink and doesn't like the given thread but doesn't want to be as obvious as deleting the thread or tossing out bans.Moderation and ownership on 4chan/nel has been Opaque as all frick ever since Moot fricked off, to the point people only hear whispers of r-sluration from the IRC the mods and jannies use to coordinate - 9 times out of 10 any news from there is them constantly ERPing and deleting vidya content off /v/ for "Being something that should be on /vg/ instead" where it will inevitably be pushed off the catalogue by the 90% of the board which is a general for some gachashit. As to why gacha didn't get banished to the "Phone Video Games" board, is anyways guess.
On slow boards like /tg/ this is potentially abusable as all heck like being shown in the OP, believe it or not the system isn't abused that much
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Redditposting is a long forced meme some people started using for people who added line breaks to their comments, accusing it of being "reddit" the proper way to type on 4channel like a true old cute twink is to lump all of your text into a single block and make it as obnoxious to read as possible.
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Your pulitzer's in the mail
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Threads on forums were/are sorted by most recent to have a comment. So you could push a completely dead thread back to the top by posting a comment. This was referred to as bumping and often the comment was literally just "bump".
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Zoomers GET OUTTTTTT
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When a thread gets a comment, It “bumps” the thread to be the top one in that board, so it’s the first one people see. If a thread isn’t bumped it gets auto-archived if it reaches the limit of thread son the board
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It literally just means too bump a thread too the top, rDrama has it too. For more traditional imageboards this is very typical. Chans, boorus and even tradforums have a bumping system generally.
@DestoryerCarbine stand with israel and you're an absolute brainlet zoomer if you don't know that
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