FWIW I've seen this term used more when discussing *chans, and less traditional forums. I think cognizance of the temporally-sorted nature of those imageboards

FWIW I've seen this term used more when discussing *chans, and less traditional forums. I think cognizance of the temporally-sorted nature of those imageboards makes the practice of "forum sliding" that much more alarming -- but that nature also makes the prospect of "forum sliding" almost inherently conspiratorial. How can one prove that activity that moves a thread off the front page (and thus probabilistically dooms it to irrelevance) is the result of some co-ordinated effort or the natural process of people using the forum?