Boosting Content

Description
This is a pattern where a user wants more feedback on its content, and therefor takes actions to highlight the content in various ways.

Examples
An example of how users may boost their content is crossposting. A Twitter user may automatically cross post content to for example Facebook.

On Facebook users may highlight their content through things like liking their own posts, which makes Facebook sort the post higher up in the top posts feed.

On a forum, a user may post a reply in a thread, even though there was no response from anyone else. Posting this reply will push the thread back to the top. It's often refered to as "bumping".

Pros and Cons
The part with crossposting is supported by some social media sites and will increase the activity on the site, so this is often a good thing. If a user tries too much to highlight the content posted, it may feel like spam to others.

Relations
The pattern is related to Low Effort Reaction, where the user likes his or her own posts to highlight the content. A user may also use multiple accounts to like or comment, and is therefor also related to One Site, Multiple Accounts.

Contributors
Created by Andreas Bjerkeholt from the inspiration of the discussions.