Bumping Guidelines For
Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade and Sell
"Drama Free"
*****************Note, if you want to better understand what "bumping" is, scroll to the BOTTOM of this post first.
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Everyone shall be allowed to bump their posts ONCE PER WEEK ON A SPECIFIC DAY of the week according to the below schedule.
Utilizing the FIRST LETTER of your FIRST NAME (as you use on Facebook, be it your real name or not, that does not matter), you can ONLY bump YOUR posts on the corresponding day of the week per the below schedule. If you miss it one week, then you need to wait until the following week's Bump Day.
This way everyone will have a weekly “Bump Day” and the bumps of all group members will be spread out throughout the week and not occur all at one time. Plus, we don’t want people bumping every day. That is simply disrespectful to the other group members. Once a week, on a schedule, is reasonable.
UPDATE: It's been more than a year and the weekly bumping schedule seems to work well for the group. So let's stick to it.
Here are some other guidelines to bumping in the group:
- You can only bump your own listings. Not the listings of others.
- If you miss your Bump Day this week, then you need to wait until your next Bump Day the following week.
- On ISO listings, if you make a comment such as, "still looking," that is a bump. Please, reserve that type of comment for your bump day. ANY comment will bump up your post to the top of the feed, so a comment like, "still looking" is a bump. The same goes for sale listings, if you write "still available" that's a bump in disguise. Please resist the urge to do that.
- When you bump a listing, you should also take the time to update it.
- If other people are regularly bumping your listing by making an innocuous comment like: “Is this still available,” then that will quickly become obvious and Admin will deal with it. So please don’t do that. By the way, if you are wanting to know if an item is still available, then it is best to PM the seller directly and NOT make a comment in the post. If you need to know why that is, just ask.
- No ghostbumping.
- And please, please, please UPDATE your listings as things change, and mark sold listings as SOLD. We really want to try and keep the group clean and only containing actively available products and needs.
Still wondering "WHY" do we need a bumping policy? Well, take a look at the blow image and you'll know. Here is one guys post in another group that shows his bumping. The names have not been changed to show the guilty. And this post originated on February 4th. So all these bumps were in the span of 4 days.
- Price updates, &
- Availability updates where, say you have a single listing with 3 items in it and you sell one item, updating the main body of the listing and also making a comment in the thread, such as: “White gi sold, other two still available.” This is simply active management of your listing and acceptable.
That’s it. Thank you for following all of our group guidelines that are meant to keep the group a safe, friendly, respectful and productive place.
If you are not yet a member of SYR Drama Free, please click here to join:
Ok, so if you want to better understand what "Bumping" is (or to "Bump" a post), here is the best explanation and guidance that I can provide.
First of all, bumping only works in Facebook GROUPS. It doesn't have any effect on a PAGE. And there is a difference. For the purposes of this information, Shoyoroll Drama Free is a GROUP. Yes, we do have a page, but that's not why you are here.
Ok, now that that has been established; moving on.
When a new post is allowed into a group it starts at the top of the feed. It will be the very first item you and everyone else sees when they access the group after the post is made. And then 10-seconds later when another post goes live in the group, that newer post replaces the prior post at the top of the feed. And so it goes.
Each time a new post is made in the group, the older posts get pushed down one notch. Over a period of days or a week a post can be buried under scores of newer posts. That's the nature of a GROUP on Facebook.
Now, if you look at Shoyoroll Drama Free or any group, you will see that the posts at the top of the feed are not necessarily the newest ones. And that is because Facebook's infrastructure was designed to keep the "hot topics" up at the top of the Groups. Therefore, anytime someone makes a comment under a post, no matter how old it is, that post is immediately thrust up to the top of the feed in that Group.
And this ^^^ is where "bumping" comes into play.
Bumping is when you (or any other person) makes a comment under an old post for the sole purpose of bringing it up to the top of the feed so that it gets noticed. That activity is called a "bump" or "bumping" a post. It's that simple.
Now, as you should have seen at the top of this blog, Shoyoroll Drama Free has guidelines on bumping. So please, before you head off back to the Group, scroll back up to the top or click below and read the guidelines. They are working well for our group. Bumping is fine, but over-bumping, ghost-bumping or bumping posts that are not yours will get you bumped right out of the group. Necro-bumping is fine however.
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