how can we promote a topic...?

how can we promote a topic after we had posted in the forum.



regards
kj

Click on "Edit" your post and on the next page below your post, you find a Radio button "Promote Topic -30 points" click on that prefernce and click submit. 30 points will be deducted....Cheers

hi
i just wanted to do this but the "Promote Topic -30 points" option is not there.

That was on the old forum software. Since the upgrade last August/September that option doesn't exist.

Keith

keith1200rs said:

That was on the old forum software. Since the upgrade last August/September that option doesn't exist.

Keith

Click to expand...

So then - what has replaced it in functionality?

This is a good forum, but the enforcement of "no bumping" seems rather draconian to me. I bumped a topic I had started after it hadn't gotten any responses in over a month, and had my hand slapped for that. What was I supposed to do instead?

More recently, I posted to an old topic (~1 year old) that mostly covered my question, but I wanted to ask a small side question about the topic and felt it made more sense to group it with that question, instead of posting a new question. I once again got my hand slapped for that.

What is the point of this? I mean, sure, people that bump their posts every 12 hours are obnoxious. But bringing back a month old topic, or a year old topic?

edit: and now I'm realizing that I misunderstood what the OP meant by "promoting". Oops!

yes, i think it was a useful feature.
I only used it when my project at work stalled (couldnt deliver the product in time) because I didnt have a solution to a problem and asked about it here.

I'm planning to restore this function, noted request.

It would be useful if the "promotion" was temporary - say a week or two. Otherwise the forum will be clogged up with ancient threads at the top.

Keith.

Yes exactly.