I'm asking for a couple of favors...PLEASE READ

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16. As I understand it, any reply "kicks" the thread / OP title to the top of the forum listing, when the forum is

sorted by "Last Reply", which is the default. ("kick" and reply are synonymous).

Since this forum is General Discussion (GD), a very very busy forum relative to all others, it will quickly start sinking in the GD listing as new replies to other GD threads kick those threads to the top.

Whether kicked or not (i.e. whether there is a recent reply or not), it will stay visible (until it falls below page 30), it's just a matter of how far down the page it falls since it was last kicked. Or on what page it falls to (page 2, page 3, etc. all the way down to page 30).

"Visible" is a relative word, since not many people look at more than the first page.

Any post that sinks to below the bottom of page 30 becomes archived, and is no longer kickable, it will never show up in the regular forum listing again.

As I write this, the bottom of page 30 of GD has posts whose last reply is October 8, so it doesn't take long for this to happen in GD. In most forums, it takes months or years for a post to fall to page 30 and below.

As for what the archives are these days, I don't know how to access them.

Rec's also aid visibility, e.g.. I saw this post in the "Trending Discussions" section of the home page. "Trending Discussions" and "Greatest Discussions" get listed there because of the number of recs and how many recs are received in a certain time frame. There is also the "Greatest Discussions" page -- accessed by the "Greatest" tab, or at https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=greatest_threads