Those are some good points Par, and I had another thing that came to mind after reading your post too. Sometimes when I post something, it'll just happen to be at a time when 10 other people post something too and sometimes my post gets knocked almost to page 2 right away. Now obviously not everyone visiting at the time will have time to read and reply to 15 new posts, so for whatever reason, whether some post title stood out to them more, whether they looked forward to seeing that particular dog, whether they just randomly picked one out of the bunch, they may reply to another post or two but not to yours and yours ends up getting knocked down.

I know that some people, and I am just as guilty as the next, sometimes only look at the most recent posts, so when one gets bumped to page 2 it has a much lesser chance of getting replied to. I personally see nothing wrong if someone wants to bump their post up and I frankly wish more people would do it more often because I hate missing things and because whenever I realize someone's posts have gotten very few replies, I feel so badly and even personally responsible if I didn't catch it until they were hurt about it. When I have limited time, I do sometimes focus on posts that have very few replies rather than ones with 3 pages of replies already. I can't always get everyone but I do my best with the time I have!

A lot of good points have been made here. Pipersmom, I have always so enjoyed your positive and touching posts in Memorial and Dog of the Day. I feel so very badly that I missed the times when you posted about your furkid. I tried to go to the links but it looks like they were deleted . I hope you'll reconsider sharing again at some point as I'd truly like to see and learn more about your boy. I also hope you won't be discouraged from posting by one sharp reply. With so very many people a part of the board, miscommunication and misunderstandings are bound to happen here and there. Please don't let it get you down.