a lot of people are asking for sage, but it hasn't been added due to- wishing to streamline and simplify the experience- hiding site activity- having the potential to be used in mean ways- probably moreso I got an idea. what if there was a sage o

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Anonymous 05/08/25 (Thu) 16:42:02 No.184

a lot of people are asking for sage, but it hasn't been added due to
- wishing to streamline and simplify the experience
- hiding site activity
- having the potential to be used in mean ways
- probably more
so I got an idea. what if there was a sage option that only bumped the thread just a little bit? i don't know how vichan stores the bump order in the database, but if its stored as a date, then you could do something like bump the thread by a couple hours or so. that way, it will appear below messages posted more recently, but appear above some older threads.
two ways to go about it, you could set the bump date to the current time minus offset, or the original bump date plus offset. don't know which would be better, but both could work
i think it would be a nice compromise!

Anonymous ★ admin 05/08/25 (Thu) 18:17:47 No.185

hm, that's an interesting idea for a compromise! it could help address the "hidden activity" point, yeah.

I guess what I'm wondering is: what do the people asking for sage want it for? in my mind, sage is mainly used for people who want to reply but don't want to give attention to OP (often to make spiteful replies). is that something that we want to encourage?
there's also "courtesy sage", like "I don't think my post deserves to bump this thread", but my feeling is that we probably don't need to be so careful about bumps like that, especially if the site's activity continues to speed up some more.