Not sure if this was posted before, but to get rid of people bumping their own post when no one else responds to it, just take off the reply button for a person's own post, and that way, they can't reply but they can still edit.
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I think he's referring to not being able to reply to one's own post, not thred. For instance, take away my reply button on this thred until someone else replies to it, ect. While my post was a completely unstructured bundle of thoughts, I hope you get what I mean...:P