Quote Originally Posted by dee-u
What you may do is to do a friendly bump after a day or two and your thread has no responses yet, it may be that it has been missed by the members. For the PM, you just have to provide the link to your thread and not directly ask the question and cordially ask the member if he/she may have a look at your thread...
I would like to discourage anyone from bumping their threads. Can you imagine what would happen if everyone did that? I also don't think it's a good idea to PM other members to ask for help. In my case, and I'm sure it's the same for others, I look at most of the threads and I answer most of those that I can, so PMing me is not productive.