The new style of forum (phpBB, ezBoard) moves the most recently replied-to threads to the top. Threads that aren't replied to can get lost on busy forums. So people bump them to ensure they stay near the top of the list, where they are more likely to be seen.
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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