What does it mean to “bump”?
You mean in the context of a web forum like this one? It means to reply to your own thread just for the sake of bumping it to the top so it stays active… and they frown on that here on Waypoint, just FYI. 
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> You mean in the context of a web forum like this one? It means to reply to your own thread just for the sake of bumping it to the top so it stays active… and they frown on that here on Waypoint, just FYI.
Not just frown, it’s against the rules.
Oh, thanks a ton
To add to Yapflip’s post, people also use it as an excuse to inflate their post count and “rank up” on the forums, which we ask users not to do