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As a vendor who have sponsored 3-4 forums consistently over the last 5 years, I believe anti bump rules isn't going to directly address the problem because there are many ways around it. Without naming names or specific methods, people can conceal all sorts of posts which serves as a bumping thread or ask their friends to make BS postings in the sale threads or have "sponsorship contracts" that require x amount of posts in support of the vendor.
I think the most effective method which is already implemented is that for the different sponsor levels, you are allowed different # of open sale threads. For us, we have three open sale threads, but because we more or less sponsor the forum to provide support, it doesn't affect us. But if you have someone who has 100 different light bulbs, an unlimited account will spawn 100 different posts.
Either way its a sensitive issue, on one hand you want to bring in as much revenue as possible, on the other, to control the quality of content being submitted to the site.
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