Besides, why use such cheap tricks if this board has a bump option - it just doesn't make sense.
bump option is effective if it is done by a higher-ranked(active) user with earned merit, i.e. it depends on "bump power". So in the case mentioned above, it is quite useless.
Base bump power
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.
Mini bumps
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.
Super bumps
Once per 24 hours, you can click a topic's bump link. When you do this, a modified bump power is calculated as something like your base bump power minus 15% for every super bump you've done in the last 30 days, and this is added to the topic's bump score.
The exact contribution is b*(1-0.15*s/b), where b is your base power and s is the total you've contributed to bump scores via super bumps over the last 30 days.