CC Basic Terms

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New to CC. Can someone bring me up to speed on some of the terms/abbreviations I commonly see here such as: “bump”, dd, etc and any others I may have come across of this nature? Thanks

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People often “bump” a post by posting again, which brings it up to the top of the forum list when sorted by last post date.

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