Threads will stay active for about a month. If you look at the bottom of the threads listing, where it says “New Thread” on the left, over to the right is a pages listing. Right now there are four pages of threads, and the last one is March 25th, so about a month. When no one posts in that thread for a month, they fall off the active list, and you basically have to remember a particular thread, or search for a key word to bring up an archived thread. You can also be subscribed to a thread that is archived, and keep it “alive” for yourself.
To bring a thread current, you just have to post a new reply. Sometimes, just the word “bump” is used in the reply. It bumps the post back to the top of the first page, and shows you have an interest in keeping the discussion alive.
Bumping is normally associated with a thread and “to bump a thread” is the act of responding to a thread for the sole purpose of raising it to the top of the page again so that more people might see it, read it and/or respond to it.
It’s generally kinda frowned upon, so people have gotten very good at hiding the fact that they’re just trying to bump a thread by faking some content in their post.
So when anyone posts a reply to a thread, it becomes active again no matter how old the thread is. Correct?
That seems to be what happened to the “Rate My Picture” thread a couple of weeks ago where the original poster hasn’t been heard from in a couple of years. Right?
It was an example that came to mind because I’m sitting on a swivel office chair (five wheels). I don’t think it’s the number of wheels that matter. Upon further thought, if the office chair did NOT swivel, it would be more like a unicycle. And you probably could turn it like a unicycle. My only point was that intellectually, I’m still not sure how turning is accomplished. Your wall example tells me not to worry about it.
You see right through our clever schemes! I had no idea! I try to add legitimate content when I (occasionally) do this. Or I’ll hold back content so I can post it on another day (I remember spacing out my replies to a past Unithon thread to keep it alive as long as possible – hey, it’s for charity!).
Lot of great advice here. One more tip. Think about your center of mass and where it is in relation to your axle. As you are moving along, your CM should be in front of your axle. How far depends on how fast you are moving. The faster the further. Try to feel that relationship and experiment with it. As you get better and more relaxed, try riding really slow with your CM directly over or just barley in front of your axle. Don’t forget to breathe. Did I mention to relax?
Hello ascbeerman. That sounds like great advice. I notice you joined almost a year ago, but it says you’ve only posted twice. Sounds like you know what you are talking about. Maybe you’ve been spending all your time actually riding! Anyhow, thanks for the advice!
What a strange universe. Two guys are sitting in office chairs half-way around the world and both trying to turn them like unicycles.
Okay, here’s what went wrong with mine. It’s adjusted too low. The effort of keeping my feet off the floor makes the hip-flick too awkward. Or maybe we’ve hit upon why I stink at unicycling.
Now, is that 35 metric degrees? [edit: which would be 126 regular degrees]
…and from where I am, GILD and uni57, you are talking to each other at one-something in the morning.
BTW, I tried the swivel chair just now. It worked.
I thought your “looking up” joke was clever, uni57, but I don’t usually vote in polls.
Yes. And unfortunately, I was up way later than that. The other Dave (GILD) lives in a funny time zone (I think it’s even metric) and he was up doing some early morning posting.
Hello GILD. I checked out the site you posted above and discovered you play the bagpipes! I have long wanted to play the bagpipes! I actually bought a CHEAP set of pipes online several years ago. I think it was a smaller version. I never could get much of a sound (of amy sort) by pressing the air biag with my arm, etc. How difficult would you say it is to learn to play the bagpipes without a teacher. I am a music person, meaning I have a degree in music education. I have picked up several instruments just by teaching myself, but I didn’t seem to be able to do that on the bagpipes. I’m sure a better set would have helped. Sorry for posting bagpipe questions on a unicycle site, but I just couldn’t help noticing your other interest(s). Thanks!