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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2013 - 09:47pm PT
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I see many bumps on the horizon.....pushing climbing content up front. When I was a kid my older sister, damn her to eternity, told my twin brother and I a scary story about some creature that went "bump in the night." I resolve to overcome the ensuing phobia that developed and bump, bump, bump.
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hossjulia
climber
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About 5 years ago, one night when I could not sleep and LEB had invaded the front page, I spent hours bumping pure climbing threads to the front page until that was all that was on there.
Wonder if anyone noticed the next morning?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I did, hossjulia.
I bump up climbing content all the time so that folks have something to eat.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Bumping LEB and other weak ass politico parrots off the front page is still a noble effort and falls under the "fock that repetitive noise" clause of silencing the dipshits with too much time on their hands.
Science, Art and general BS'ing should still be kosher
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Wow, thanks to the bump team. I've read at least 4 or 5 new climbing threads that I never knew existed. Lets keep it up!
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WBraun
climber
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You guys bumped but didn't say anything earthshaking.
The earth is shaking and you guys can't even get it to calm down .....
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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my two cents (i'm new so really only 1 cent), but an off topic forum would be a hyudge improvement.
here's the front page currently. it's not so much the % of OT threads that are a problem, but the amount of time they spend on the first page. hell, why not just sticky the Politics, god religion thread and the climate change thread so they're always on top, since that's where they stay anyway, constantly pushing down the climbing TR's and beta.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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indeed. sometimes i will use snarky, often misunderstood statements in BBST's place for similar effect. i am bored, after all. the point remains.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sure, why not? I'll try anything twice.
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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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I do my part by not opening those threads in the first place.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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The problem with bumping is that it only temporarily refreshes a thread that the "community" has passed interest in.
The truest way to increase the front page quality of the forum is to have more trip reports. NO, they don't have to be Earth shaking, ground breaking record staking radicals either!
Lots of us are reduced to Average Joe/Weekend Warrior status. People here even seem to appreciate an average photo TR, or a good road trip TR.
If you found it interesting enough to take pictures of, chances are that a good number of people here will enjoy looking at them.
I have posted a good number of Average Joe TR's and gotten very satisfactory responses. It doesn't have to stay on the front page forever, if there are lots of them.
Mr. Donini, you are possibly more guilty than most. Nobody of your caliber, who climbs as much as you do, should be allowed to bitch about forum quality if you don't post pictures of the 100+ days a year you climb!
It's not even that difficult in the new digital age. You can take tons of photos, delete the ones you don't like, enhance the ones you do like, plug a little cable thingy into the computer and away you go.
Here are a couple examples of non-climbing TRs that I did, with lots of pretty rock in them, that folks seemed to enjoy.
You think your life isn't interesting enough to share with the gang? I beg to differ.
I BBST'd a number of TRs yesterday to no affect at all. People have already seen them.
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Up-Nawth-Road-Trip-A-Brief-Photo-Essay/t10993n.html
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/My-Hiking-Buddy-Ancient-Oceans-and-The-House-Of-The-Spirits/t10913n.html
Until there are at least two forums, we will NEVER do away with all the threads where people get to argue about sh#t.
So sayeth Survival.
The End
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Take a look at that Front Page, there!
I think she's looking pretty good!
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Jebus H Bomz, are we the same poster?
It would explain SO MUCH!
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Ever thought of creating your own website devoted exclusively to climbing with mods? Or do you just like f*#king up this site with constant complaining and meaningless thread bumbing of old threads that died for a reason?
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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BBST
WAIT
Technically speaking this isn't a climbing thread. So bumping it is self defeating!
aww what the heck...
BUMP
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