Forum:Are "Bumps" Ok?

Is it ok to "bump" a forum or talk page back into the recent edits list by making an insignificant edit to it? The circumstances I'm talking about are when a significant issue has been raised but not responded to. Such things are unlikely to ever be resolved after they have fallen way down the recent edits list. I admittedly used this method of topic revival once before:


 * There was a major problem with one of our pages, which I had brought up multiple times but had never gotten a response to. All my mentions of it had long since fallen way down the recent edits list. Later, I saw a seasoned editor was currently online editing things. Believing it important that the matter be resolved, I did something irrelevant like added a space to my post in the talk page. It jumped to the top of the recent edits list, got noticed and responded to by said editor, and thanks to that the whole things ended up fixed.

There are obviously instances where bumping a topic like this would be disruptive, but it's also undeniable that certain things can just get overlooked, and there needs to be a way to get them noticed again. Is this way ever a good idea? Is there a better way?--Fierce Deku (talk) 02:54, December 22, 2010 (UTC)