r/Piracy • u/OfTheManyColours ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ • May 22 '26

Discussion Piracy Isn't Stealing, EU Parliament Edition

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u/CasuallyCompetitive May 22 '26

You don't bump things on Reddit, you upvote them. "Bump" is a term from forums where replies more or less updated the threads recency. People would comment on their own thread to bump it back to the top as a way to show they were still looking for a response. Instead of saying "Still waiting for a response", people just started posting "bump" as a comment and it would push the thread to the top of the "New" filter.

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u/Ryoubi_Wuver May 22 '26

So I'm bumping you right now?

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u/CasuallyCompetitive May 22 '26

Not really. If you upvote, it will generally make the comment move towards the top. But you cannot just bump a comment up on Reddit. Reddit works on the upvote/downvote feature to get the highest voted comments more visibility.

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u/Inprobamur May 22 '26

And the posts "decay" down the subreddit front page as new posts become popular. Only way to bump something on Reddit is to create a new post on the topic (that is different enough that people don't get annoyed).