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Limit community-bot question bumps

A year has passed since Bot keeps bumping outdated questions. I have rerun the SEDE query mentioned in the comments. Good news: we're down to 2619 eligible questions (from the 3137 I reported last year). Bad news: that's still a lot, and the volume of new questions has dropped enough that I often find the questions home page topped by a significant number of bumped questions (and I sometimes miss new questions I would've liked to read).

Keep up the good work in reducing bump-eligible posts! But, to copy the rest from the Game Dev meta post requesting the rate limit:

StackExchange has a feature to mitigate this, which skips Community bumps if any of the top n questions on the Active Questions feed were themselves bumped there by the Community bot.

Currently the Expression Engine, Hardware Recommendations, and Japanese StackOverflow sites use n = 5 to stop bumps if any of the top 5 most-recently-active questions are Community bumps.

Should we request enabling this limit here too? And if so, what threshold n should we use?