Questions tagged [bump]
Some changes to questions, such as edits or receiving new answers, will "bump" them back onto the site's front page where the changes can be vetted by other users. **Do not use this tag to bump questions by adding it to them!**
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The Community bot's question-bumping behaviour is no longer useful and should be disabled
Previously on Meta (note: you are contractually obligated to read the preceding phrase in the tone of an American TV show narrator).
For context, the Community bot is a process whereby old questions ...
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Debouncing edit bumps
My opt-out of bumping checkbox for edits was predictably not well received Support Sage-ing edits. So I'm having a second go.
What about an opt-in to a debounce for your edit bumps?
Once you've posted ...
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Re-Editing tags can put you on the "newest" category [duplicate]
If you go to one of your oldest questions, remove a tag (save) and then put it again, it will put you on the "Newest" category of that tag.
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Can gold-badge owners get the possibility to undo a bump by a revision?
Every now and then (a couple of times a day) in the tags I follow an old question appears that has been bumped to the front page by a small revision. Sometimes this also happens by Community, but in ...
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How many times can a question be bumped by the community user?
Is there a limit to the number of times the question should be bumped by Community? Should it be bumped 5 times? 10 times? Every month? Every 3 months? Is there an official rule for this? Will such ...
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What is the point of "community" bumping posts? [duplicate]
Why is the "community" bot pulling up poor questions from 12/20/2012?
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First we really do not deal with IE9 any more, second it is ...
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Limit what posts the community user can bump
Quite a list of questions has been bumped on Meta, in the last hour:
But not in [Browsername here] SEDE Query
Cancel upvotes on older comments
Does the "timeline" parameter work correctly?
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How do I bump my own question?
I would like to be able to bump old questions to the front page (so they appear together with the newly posted questions). Is there any way to do that currently?
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What can I do when i found an unanswered question interesting, but not enough to spend reputation on a bounty?
I found a question slightly interesting, but not so much as I'm ready to lose reputation by placing a bounty on it. Not that I care so much about rep, but, well not totally indifferent about it either....
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Is there a way to prevent edits to "Old" questions from showing up in the "Top Questions" list? [duplicate]
Here is the situation. A user is doing a very good thing and is helping improve the quality of old questions by fixing misspellings or capitalization, etc...
The rub is that every non-consequential ...
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Community user bumping a post but no banner on mobile [closed]
I just saw this post on the homepage: Using IF condition to copy either one cell or another where community made a change to it one hour ago. As you can see there was no edit made by the community ...
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How should we handle the (ongoing) mass editing on Meta?
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For several days, many posts on Meta.SO have been edited by the same user, mostly replacing "StackOverflow" with "Stack Overflow" and editing tags. A large number of these questions are old,...
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Why does this same question keep getting "bumped to the homepage"? [duplicate]
I've noticed in a particular topic a single question from 2011 has been "bumped to the homepage" several times. According to the revision history, 14 times. I'm trying to understand why.
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What determines frequency and number of posts that are bumped by Community?
I've noticed that posts that are bumped by Community follow a specific pattern. They are bumped every ~60 minutes and there are always 4 posts that are being bumped.
My question (purely out of ...
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Who upvoted my "late" answer so quickly?
I just found a question that is 3 weeks old. I don't want to link to it because I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to bring attention to my answer, so here is some info about the question:
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