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A year has passed since Bot keeps bumping outdated questions.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?

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm not sure how much Meta traffic we can muster for votes, but I'll post some candidate answers. Please upvote any you agree with, downvote those you don't, and post a new answer if you have another option to propose (and make any comments you find useful). $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 18 at 14:49

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Yes, we should limit community bumps, and should adopt the n=5 used elsewhere. It's been successful there, might as well keep to the same path.

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Yes, we should limit community bumps, but we shouldn't be so restrictive: set n=2.

This puts the maximum density of bumped questions at 50%, which gives us plenty of time to have a new question on the home page, and it also surfaces plenty of old questions to address.

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  • $\begingroup$ Drat, I can't vote for myself even on meta. This one is my preference. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 18 at 14:56
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No, let the bot bump questions as it does now. We can use the opportunity to clear up which old questions/answers are useful or not, and naturally decrease the density of bumps over time.

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