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. (NOTE: Do not use this tag to bump questions by adding it to them!)
224 questions
1 vote
1 answer
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Modified today with no apparent evidence
As I have visited SE sites over the past N years, I have noticed again and again that some questions get pushed up to the “newest” or “active” feeds (which I default to watching), but when I click on ...
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4 votes
0 answers
52 views
Community bump unanswered questions with followers
I'd like to see recently-followed questions bumped more often by Community. I think that would help us draw attention to unresolved posts people have shown interest in. The criteria I'm imagining ...
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13 votes
2 answers
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Stop Community user from bumping status-resolved questions
When a question is tagged by a moderator with a status conclusion tag, the Community user should no longer randomly bump it. (Possibly excluding status-review from this suggestion.) When a moderator ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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What does "Bumped" mean? [duplicate]
Some times in the editing review there is a message that the Question has been "bumped." Does this mean the question has been pushed farther back on a page, OR that it has been moved forward ...
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-9 votes
1 answer
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Can we have a community accept feature to stop Community (the bot) from refloating posts? [duplicate]
On the Spanish site, I see that user:-1 Community [bot] is constantly refloating posts. I don't know the general parameters for it to do so... but the main one is not having an assigned answer even ...
user1675472
-9 votes
1 answer
175 views
Don't bump "dead" questions [duplicate]
Community Bot visits old questions and bumps them so that they can receive answers and hopefully have an accepted answer eventually. However, many answers are old, and the OP sometimes hasn’t visited ...
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6 votes
1 answer
278 views
How can a user with no activity make a 5-year-old Stack Overflow question "active"?
A 5-year old question on Stack OverFlow, Page Navigation not working on the final for loop iteration, is currently showing as "Active" (AND displays at the top of the list) under the tag &...
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3 votes
3 answers
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What can/should we do about the homepage currently being flooded by 'housekeeping'?
Right now, staff members are performing a cleanup of various status-review and status-deferred tags for functionality which is no longer supported (think legacy Jobs, Winter Bash). While some ...
GlorfindelMod
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5 votes
1 answer
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Filter out questions modified by Community Bot [duplicate]
When I go to apple.SE, the default sort is Active, showing questions that have been modified recently. But many of these are old questions that have been bumped by Community Bot with the reason This ...
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-8 votes
2 answers
178 views
Why do questions remain visible after answers are deleted?
While browsing SE sites, I often see questions (some quite old) that have been bumped because answers have been deleted. I did originally assume these were pending edits, but they're not. Should ...
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-15 votes
2 answers
208 views
Possible incentive problem since edits bump questions
I posted Is armageddon more fair in a Vickrey auction? in Chess Stack Exchange on February 9th 2023. It was bumped a year later when someone edited my post on 18th March 2024. Why doesn't this create ...
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2 votes
1 answer
272 views
How to deal with mass typos fixing, should they be a part of homepage?
There are several questions about the issue, but related to low-rep users, e.g. Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites? I would like to discuss how should we ...
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-17 votes
3 answers
324 views
Stop bumping questions that nobody cares about
This is a follow-up of What is the point to show to anonymous users posts bumped by Community user? How to prevent that bad questions be bumped in low participation sites? Bumps by Community-User are ...
- 19k
-11 votes
2 answers
258 views
What is the point to show to anonymous users posts bumped by Community user? How to prevent that bad questions be bumped in low participation sites?
TL;DR: Showing Community-user bumped questions to anonymous users is more likely to cause harm than good, isn't it? If this is correct, what feature-request should be asked and where (per-site-meta or ...
- 19k
-5 votes
1 answer
194 views
Are edited questions bumped to the front page?
I got a warning for multiple edits to a question on Mathematics, stating "Editing posts, even deleted ones, bumps them to the front page which takes precious front page real estate, and can be ...
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