Replies

When someone wants to alert another Freeper to a particular thread, he will hit "reply" and type that Freeper's name into the "To:" box. Then, when his friend shows up at FR, he will see "New Posts to You" highlighted at the top of the window and when he clicks on it, he will have a link that takes him to the thread his friend wanted him to see. Does that make sense? Now, sometimes people will type in "ping" because they want to read the article, but don't have the time right then. If they hit "reply" and type in "ping", they will be alerted on their own "Posts to You" page that the article is there to be read.

Now, what is a "bump"? This would make sense if you were set up so that when you come to FR, you immediately go to the "Latest Posts" page. This page, every time it is refreshed, shows the articles that have most recently had posts made to it. So, the articles that are having the most discussion are always at or near the top. If you think an article is really good and should be read, but isn't in Breaking News (or even if it is), you might reply and type in "Bump" so that the people who go to the "Latest Posts" page are likely to see it when they go there.

I hope that some of this was helpful (and correct!) LOL