You could always just bump every 23.5 hours. Nobody is going to report you for that...

And if they do, they have some issues. Even I wouldn't complain if it was that close to the 24 hour requirement.

24 hours is the perfect time between bumps as it's the time our servers would roll over to the next day. It would seem weird if a server was bumped on the same day with our time approximations.

It really shouldn't be that much of an inconvenience, in theory you should be able to bump the same time each day.

No, we will not give extra features to higher levels. Every user on this site is on an equal playing field. You can't throw experience/money at us and expect to get your server noticed more.

-P

Unlocked as I see no reason this should have been locked despite my stand on the matter.

To the mod who locked it: Put a reason next time. You muppet.

itsatacoshop247
I am the OP and itsatacoshop247, so that was me twice you are replying to

I am coming from a server owner point of view on all of this, since that's all that I submit to Planet Minecraft, should have clarified that in the main post maybe. Fairness is obviously important, but I think letting people have an easier schedule to update once daily would (at least for server bumps) be more fair as it means everyone can get a daily bump in.

Whoops! Did not notice that, at all.

I'm also coming from the server owner point of view.. If you take a look at the server section, you can see that it's all spam. There are even people who have more than one server submission, and they update them all at the same time. There are also multiple people with submissions for the same server. Honestly, 24 hours is a very short time, and I feel it should be longer - Especially for servers that have only been up for a few months.. But cutting the time would be painful for everyone, whether they be looking for servers or advertising their own.. And though it doesn't seem like it, it would cause a lot of stress to PMC, since there would be more people updating and they would also be updating more frequently.. While that wouldn't be an issue for a stable site, PMC already crashes a lot.

I think you should just do a poll or something because talking about it here won't do much:/

I agree

SilverKyttenThe only submissions that should be getting bumped, every day, are servers. Everything else can only be bumped using the update log, and unless you actually have something to update about the submissions, 'bumping' is update log abuse.

itsatacoshop247Back on the main topic, another idea I have is to just make it once per day bumps. The PlanetMC time is already logged in UTC, so just relate to that. Then you can bump once per calender day. So I could bump at 11pm on the 8th, 1am on the 9th, but then not again until the 10th at any time of that day. I have a bukkit plugin that does this by giving out items once per calendar day, so it doesn't punish people who can't come every 24 hours due to school/work/etc.

That's a good idea, in theory. But people would still abuse it. If people didn't abuse updates, then I doubt there would even be a limit. "I could bump at 11pm on the 8th, 1am on the 9th" That's what the 24 hour rule is there to prevent. They don't want people updating multiple times in a row, it doesn't matter that they would have to wait a day in between, it's still spam.

To the OP:
Just update whenever you're able to. It's the fairest way to run the updating system, without having spam or other problems.

I am the OP and itsatacoshop247, so that was me twice you are replying to

I am coming from a server owner point of view on all of this, since that's all that I submit to Planet Minecraft, should have clarified that in the main post maybe. Fairness is obviously important, but I think letting people have an easier schedule to update once daily would (at least for server bumps) be more fair as it means everyone can get a daily bump in.

The only submissions that should be getting bumped, every day, are servers. Everything else can only be bumped using the update log, and unless you actually have something to update about the submissions, 'bumping' is update log abuse.

itsatacoshop247Back on the main topic, another idea I have is to just make it once per day bumps. The PlanetMC time is already logged in UTC, so just relate to that. Then you can bump once per calender day. So I could bump at 11pm on the 8th, 1am on the 9th, but then not again until the 10th at any time of that day. I have a bukkit plugin that does this by giving out items once per calendar day, so it doesn't punish people who can't come every 24 hours due to school/work/etc.

That's a good idea, in theory. But people would still abuse it. If people didn't abuse updates, then I doubt there would even be a limit. "I could bump at 11pm on the 8th, 1am on the 9th" That's what the 24 hour rule is there to prevent. They don't want people updating multiple times in a row, it doesn't matter that they would have to wait a day in between, it's still spam.

To the OP:
Just update whenever you're able to. It's the fairest way to run the updating system, without having spam or other problems.

I think 24 hours is WAY too long, I think 3-4 hours on the first three days, then for the rest the 23 hour bump.

That makes perfect sense to me. Unless you live along that UTC midnight line. Then if you posted slightly after midnight UTC, you'd need to wait a full 23.x hours until the next UTC midnight.

I've always wondered why it wasn't 23 hours. I live with it being 24 hours, but I'd rather it not be.

How I see it, no matter how far you push it back, it will only do the same thing. The 24 hour period should be enough for server owners not to spam their servers on the server section of PMC. I find this fair, and it gives some leeway to servers who are newly posted to the site.

How do i bump if i may ask?

Agreed.

you definitely put some thought into this and I agree, it would help with some pixel art contest, etc. Then again one of the only things being bumped are people advertising their youtube account...

Maybe add a poll and see how many people are for or against your idea.