Those screams you're hearing are bump-farmers grieving their "business". Great news.
For now, I am intentionally not making it public who bumped each topic, since that way you can't prove that you bumped anything, and this may prevent people from selling their bumps as easily. I don't particularly object to making the approximate bump scores or bump powers public, but I didn't do this yet.
If you find bugs, PM me.
Can you at least make their own bump power visible to each user? Might help with debugging.
Your base bump power is the smaller of these two values:
- The activity you would have if you'd signed up 1 year ago.
- The merit you've earned in the last year.
If it's zero (as it will be for newbies), then you don't bump at all.
So this basically means maximum possible bump power is 364?
If you haven't posted in a topic in the last 7 days, posting in it adds 1% of your base bump power to the topic's bump score. Deleted posts count against the 7-day limit, but not the topic's bump score.
Mini bumps don't reduce one's bump power, right?
The biggest takeaway for me so far is that zero merits == zero bump power.