Wrong - "bump" is also the lamest excuse for spammers to work on their post count. I'm pretty sure there are lots of people around here who have used the bump excuse hundreds of times
But sometimes it's a good thing though, for example when a few newbies have cloggered up the first page of the BG2 forum with questions about finding and/or killing Kangaxx and you actually have to
search for the thread you were having an interesting discussion in