Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1336932" data-attributes="member: 149">Like many people my interest was grabbed by the original post and we bumped it a number of times over a period (not every day) while wondering what had happend. Eventually, what we had heard was that Seph had stopped posting because of a lack of interest in the original thread (in the General Board, not SH). So bumping it every day was at least in part a demonstration of DEVOUT interest. Partly it was a nearly vain desire to just simply find out what had happened, since the question posed was "Is Lady Despina's change of Heart Real?" and "Should Eadric spare her?". Even though it was just a "what should I do?" kind of post it did still have Seph's characteristic feel for conveying a situation. Personally, I've always been a sucker for a hopless romance and it just doesn't get much more hopless than a Paladin and a Succubus. So that was my motivation to participate. As a result of all the effort put into it for all those months, I always felt that the original thread with all the bumps should have been kept as a monument to the effort and faithfulness that it enshrined. Unfortunately between the several crashes, rebuilds and server transfers the original thread with the bumps was lost and only the "pruned" version survived. For reasons of readability the desire to prune the bumps is reasonable and necessary. I think the original thread was something like 1.5 pages of posts and something like 15 pages of bumps. However, it does rather dimminish the desire to bump it every day if you know they are simply going to be eliminated. Also we KNOW Seph will post again now, most people who follow story hours have read it and it is one of the most popular story hours. So the fate of the thread is in no peril, something that is not the case when you have not heard a peep from the author in 6+ months.So for all those reasons it isn't bumped every day IMHO. BTW Horacio didn't actually bump it every day, only about 99%+ of the time. However he was the one who really got bumping it started. The rest of us helped fill in the days he didn't/couldn't do it and pumped up the view count by checking it every day in the nearly vain hope that Seph would have posted again or that one of the mods would at least fake a post and put us out of our misery.</blockquote>

Verification