Bump Button Removal and Bump Rules

Dear OSBot community,

Since we migrated to IPB4 there have been a lot of issues with the bump topic plugin.

One of the major issues was that the plugin only allowed people to bump one of their topics in a specified interval via settings in the acp.

So to bypass this, we have been allowing people to bump their topics by posting "bump" on them.

To resolve these issues we decided to allow posting to bump topics, and to avoid confusion we also decided to entirely remove the bump button.

We soon realised that we didn't really have any specific set of rules in place for bumping since we used to be able to directly apply restrictions to the bump button.

From now on, this will however change.

I have discussed with the staff team what kind of restrictions were applied to the bump button when we still had ipb3, and we came to the mutual agreement to apply the following restrictions from now on:

Non paid ranks: every 6 hours (including Ex-staff and Scripter)

VIP: every 4 hours

All other paid ranks: every 3 hours

These restrictions apply per seperate topic that someone creates.

Keep in mind that the timer to be able to bump your topic starts running from the last time that you posted on your own topic.

Another thing there is still some confusion about is if workers are allowed to bump the topic of the service owner.

Let it be clear once and for all that they are NOT allowed to do that, only the creator of the topic is allowed to bump his own topic!

We also know these rules can easily be broken and that we obviously can't go through every topic to check if people are following these rules, so I would like to encourage everyone to report the post when you see someone breaking these rules and a staff member will take action accordingly.

These changes are effective immediately when this topic is posted, I will edit the market rules later on with this new information.

Sincerely,

The OSBot staff team