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Waste the bump?
Raffee
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2012/08/02 - 5:16am
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In one of the recent discussions, a member said, "I just spent a week at home, and don't want to waste this posting–hence the bump".

What does the boldfaced part mean?

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2012/08/02 - 6:35am
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His first post had not been answered for a long time. By adding a new post he bumped the topic up to the top of the updated topics list. This again brought it to our attention and someone (Grant?) responded.

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2012/08/02 - 9:51am
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And (to answer the other part) he felt that if no one replied to the post, it would have been wasted, ie effort expended with no benefit.

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