A thread will only live on the front page of Hexbear for about 4 hours if it has a high enough score and active comments. Every time you bump a thread it resets the "posted" timestamp (effectively) so it appears higher in the feed, but as time passes, that timestamp decays and time is added to the refreshed timestamp. At most, you should only bump a thread every 5 minutes to 10 minutes. If that is happening consistently in a thread, then Upvotes become more important in terms of the internal rank generated to sort the list when using the Active sort. Pumping a thread within only seconds of posting does not impact the rank of the post. Bumping the thread constantly with only seconds between comments also doesn't impact the score. The post moves down the list the "older" it is, and bumping it resets the timestamp on the post to the most recent comments timestamp (plus a decay value).
To summarize:
- Post the thread
- Bump 5 min later
- then bump every 5 to 10 minutes
- get more upvotes to rank higher
- after 4 hours your post will never hit the front page.
so many that this occurs.
