My double posts.

[Schizophretard]

Clearly its not a matter of bumping, its a matter of new information being made visible and not hidden behind the old posts time stamp. Why would anyone update an old post with new info when that leads to the thread/post not showing up as recently updated (and remains buried). Clearly, this is a great example of when discretion should be used.

I'm inclined to agree with Victor on this. If the time between posts is significant, then the thread has gone cold. If the same person posts with new info at that point, no one will ever have a reason to revisit the thread. The obvious alternative is to start a new thread with the same subject matter but i don't think anyone wants that. Those would be very specific circumstances though, a dormant thread updated with new information by the same person who was last to post before it went cold. Very easy to identify.

Hmm... Good points. If I talk the other kids into it then it would have to be at our discretion based on things like,"Is this updated info of high enough importance to other members to justify being bumped?", "Is the member just trying to bump their own thread and/or trying to put a topic into everyone else's faces that no one is interested in presently?" and things of that nature. Also, they would still have to be merged but with the new time stamp to keep them bumped up because members already get confused about when they can double post and wouldn't realize it was an exception to the rule like the one week Unofficial Support double post exception or the devs updating their game threads exception. It would also help but not necessarily required if we were sent a reported post about your post to ask to have the newer time stamp with the reasons for it. For an example, Victor Coleiro could do a reported post on the linked post with something like,"Please merge with the new time stamp because it is about a sale that is happening right now and if buried it wouldn't be found until over." Sound fair?