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an-aura-about-you · 1 year ago

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you ever see a post where a person says a thing, another person says, "That's definitely not true," regarding the first post, and you actually DO remember the thing being true but it's such an inconsequential, niche thing that you know it's not worth it to make it an addition on that post?

#and I'll put the actual thing in the tags for anyone interested in knowing what I mean #apparently somebody on Twitter wrote that they just realized bump is an acronym for 'bring up my post'#and while that reblog saying that's not true is half correct that's still only half #bump turning into an acronym for 'bring up my post' did exist as a thing on gaia online forums when it was brand new in 2003 #I don't remember seeing it on any other forums I participated in at the time #but it makes sense that it would be on gaia since it gamefied forum posting by rewarding forum members with in-game currency #so when you post you would earn a small amount of gold #which can be used to purchase items to dress up the doll that serves as your avatar on the forums #if a user wanted to save up for a specific item it wasn't uncommon for them to create a thread specifically for spam posting #there was a forum created specifically for those kind of threads and everything #and naturally for other threads one would want to bump their own so it would be on top of the front page and get more views #in any case it was not uncommon to see people add replies to their own forum threads that read 'bring up my post'

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