it implied that the topics with no replies show up higher, although I am not sure if that’s the case.
A lot of people seem confused by this, but it’s not confusing, really. It’s just people.
Certainly, there’s more questions than there are people to answer them. So it is inevitable that some will get no reply.
However, it is more often the case that no reply means that the people who have looked at it didn’t know the answer or didn’t see enough information to spur them to provide a reply requesting more information.
With specific regards to bumping, we have special views on that, because on these forums, the people who look for questions to answer have a special “No Replies” view that many of them use (myself included), which only shows threads that have no replies yet. As soon as a reply is made, including a “bump”, then the question disappears from that list. Which puts bumpers in the awkward position of having made their question much less likely to get an answer.
Thus, bumps are deleted. They’re worthless anyway, by definition, and they’re made more worthless in that they don’t fit with how many volunteers and helpers on this support forum operate.
Yes, you may not get an immediate answer. Everybody else has lives too. We don’t troll the forums constantly all day looking for people to help. Sorry. Not much we can do about that, everybody has their own other things. What I always tell people to do is to pitch in. If you answer somebody’s questions that you know the answers to, then that means there’s other people who don’t have to answer them and can answer other things. The solution to getting questions answered is to answer more questions, always.
And use the “Notify me of follow-up posts via email” option, so that when somebody does respond, you’ll get an email. No need for impatience.
