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When a question is tagged by a moderator with a status conclusion tag, the Community user should no longer randomly bump it. (Possibly excluding from this suggestion.)

When a moderator adds a tag like , it's a clear signal that the question's issue is resolved. Reviving these posts just brings up old, settled topics and clutters the active queue. I think disabling bumps for these cases would help keep the focus on questions that still need attention.

Here are a few examples from the front page:

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    All that's needed to stop the bumps is for one person to upvote the answer though? If it doesn't have an answer, it should and should probably still be bumped. Commented Apr 8 at 17:19
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    @ColleenV if there isn't an answer for a resolved bug, then only the staff are really in a proper position to write one. Should we be requiring them to do so? Commented Apr 8 at 19:09
  • @ColleenV I'm not sure that an upvote is sufficient. Both my examples have an upvoted answer. I always thought the question has to have an accepted answer to stop the bumping. Could be wrong though... Commented Apr 8 at 19:47
  • @KarlKnechtel Nope but bumping does make a post that needs attention more visible, which means it has a better chance of getting an answer than if we leave it to languish unanswered. Commented Apr 8 at 19:50
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    @ColleenV Thanks for clarifying. If that's all it needs I'll make sure to upvote those answers in future. Commented Apr 8 at 19:59
  • @KarlKnechtel It doesn't look like it gets bumped without an answer. I had my wires crossed with a Roomba post. Commented Apr 8 at 20:10
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    @ColleenV Completely off-topic: I sometimes re-read the passage on your profile - it always makes me smile. I love puppers :) Commented Apr 8 at 20:13
  • @Sarah The bump reason in the history is boilerplate for all questions that get bumped. I suppose it might be better to say "All of the answers on this question have a zero score. The system has marked the question active to attract more attention." Commented Apr 8 at 21:08

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From the FAQ What can cause a question to be bumped?

The Community user will bump non-negatively scored, open questions every hour that have at least one answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that.

So the easiest way to prevent the example questions from being bumped is to upvote their answers. I'm only recommending that for this specific situation. Posts are bumped because they need attention, and the right action might be something other than upvoting the only answer.

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In addition to , maybe and could be excluded from this suggestion as well, as posts with those tags are not resolved/completed either.

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