[philman_36]

Bump for later.
Old terminology for sending the post to the top (bump) so you can read it later.

Close. Bookmark for later.
You make an easy reference point in your own "My Comments" page by making a BFL, a ., or something else for ease of retrieval/viewing later.
You'll see it for a point of reference on these threads for someone to pick up where they left off reading.

[philman_36]

The 2008 FreeRepublic LexiconBump is used when someone wants to post a reply to a thread simply to "bump" it back to the top of the "Latest Posts" list so more visitors will see it. See also BTTT in the acronyms section.

There is a difference. BFL is not listed on that Lexicon thread.

[TruthWillWin]

Close. Bookmark for later.
You make an easy reference point in your own "My Comments" page by making a BFL, a ., or something else for ease of retrieval/viewing later.

You'll see it for a point of reference on these threads for someone to pick up where they left off reading.

I understand that some users do placemarks for their convenience.

Common years ago for someone to use "btt" that was different than a placemark. That was used for getting some attention to important threads that went stale.

Not trying to offend those that do placemark but here is what happened a month ago. Was a traveling and away from home trying to keep up on Q using a phone. Noticed 2 recent Q drops. Did not have a lot of data to use for internet, did not have much time. Opened a Q thread, have 50 posts showing per page. Of those 50 posts if after scrolling through; troll posts, responses to trolls (many more than troll posts), posts about pianos, posts about food, posts about owls (or some bird), place marks; there was only 4 posts pertaining to Q! Went to next 50 posts, a little better, 5 posts pertaining to Q.

Seems we should have a better way to placemark without requiring everyone reading the tread to see them.

I use this low tech method: