[brooklin]

I've always been curious too.

[chance33_98]

Bump and BTTT - Bump a thread to the top of the pool/list. Some people view latest posts versus latest articles. When you Bump a thread it shows up at or near top of the latest posts, hence breathing new life into it and alerting people to it who may not have seen it before.

Bump List: Like the breaking news thing to the side in some ways, people view some threads by checking to see if it appears in the bump list. Example, War on Drugs (WOD list). When you bump an article to a list and someone goes to the bump list and selects WOD they will see the article listed there as well, a form of indexing by article subject.