The kinks have been worked out and the bump button is now working properly. To alleviate some of the complaining, the bump interval has been reduced to 20 hours, meaning a topic can be bumped 20 hours after the last post (or the last bump if there haven't been any posts in the meantime).
Edit March 23:
There are some kinks in this feature that we did not anticipate. Until those can be changed, we are going back to allowing posting a bump once a day, with EST/EDT being used as the time zone to determine when one day ends and another one starts.
I've changed permissions and enabled the bump button in every section that allows bumps to be used once per day. From now on, the following global rule is in effect:
If you need help finding the bump button, here's a screen shot:For those forums and subforums that allow bumping, you may bump your own threads once every 24 hours. To bump, you must use the bump button at the bottom of your thread. If that button is not showing up, you are not allowed to bump that particular thread. Making a post to bump a thread is not allowed.
The following forums currently have the bump button enabled:
Tea House (main section)
Seller's Gallery
Living Art
Roleplay Stage (main section)
Private Stage
Merchant District (all sections)
Spoiler
I've had to play around with permissions a lot to get this done. If you notice something wonky or if you're unable to do something you were able to do before, I've probably changed some setting I shouldn't have. In that case drop me a PM and I'll check what caused it.
Edit: I didn't properly explain how this works exactly, my apologies for that. Here's how the system handles this button:
You can only bump a thread that hasn't been posted in for at least 24 hours. If you or anyone else made a post within the last 24 hours, the bump button will not appear.
For example, Master Belmos last posted in the current Nursery auction at 3:15 pm EDT on May 19, when he created the topic. Even though that was more than 24 hours ago, he cannot bump it since the last post in the thread at this moment was on 5:35 pm EDT today, and that is less than 24 hours ago.
In other words, you may only bump a thread if you don't get any activity for 24 hours.