[RonDog]

If you would like ON or OFF this ping list, please FReep-mail RonDog...

Thanks for "bumping" this thread...

From FReeper batter's classic thread:

The 2009 FreeRepublic Lexicon
(Lingo, Dictionary, Lore Handbook) - UPDATE TIME!

Bump - 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.

-- snip --

BTTT - "Bump To The Top" or "Back To The Top" is used interchangeably with "Bump".

-- snip --

Ping - Putting a FReeper's screen name in the "reply to" field...
...so that they will see it in self search.

Also, to "page" them to the thread.

[RonDog]

Bump - 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.

"Bumping" a thread also helps to "feed the Google-bots." ;)

From support.google.com:

Googlebot

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider").

Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages
to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process:
computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site.

Googlebot's crawl process begins with a list of webpage URLs, generated from previous crawl processes
and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters.

As Googlebot visits each of these websites it detects links (SRC and HREF) on each page
and adds them to its list of pages to crawl...