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!)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
One of the sites which people reference on Buddhism.SE is Piya Tan's "Dharmafarers".
The URLs of reference material on that site have changed, for example:
Old: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-...
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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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What can cause a question to be bumped?
What can cause a question to be "bumped" to the first page in the Active tab of a Stack Exchange site? (Changing the "Last Active" date.)
Return to FAQ Index.
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The system for adding a new tag to old questions is broken
Tags are useful for lots of reasons. Accurate and specific tags: much more-so.
When a site does't have a particular tag, it's easy enough to add a new tag to an existing question.
But, applying a new ...
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Which sites impose limits on Community bumps, and what are those limits?
Most sites don't have limits on how many questions can be bumped by the Community user, based on past bumps: regardless of how many questions were bumped in the past and are currently on the home page,...
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Yet another suggestion for questions bumped by retagging
There have been countless questions on the topic of question bumping to the main page for tag edits. I won't review or rehash any of that. Here are two suggestions I did not spot as having been made ...
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How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?
I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by ...
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Why are old (and abandoned) questions getting bumped to home page? [closed]
I'm a big fan of WordPress, - and want to help the community by answering questions on the dedicated Stack Exchange. However, - I can see that 'Community' has started to bump old questions to the ...
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Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review
Every edit, no matter how minor, bumps a question to the frontpage of an SE site. This behaviour is important to allow the community to review edits, but it also creates significant problems when a ...
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How to move up/*bump* questions on Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
At times questions are asked without any proper responses that are useful to the person who posts questions, even though there might be few upvoted answers. These generally get pushed back quickly ...
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Where's the bump notice?
Does anyone remember this?
Bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 2 hours ago
This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.
With the ...
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Having the Community user offering bounties instead of bumping
I dislike when the Community user bumps questions and flags them modified when no (valuable) modification was actually made.
It is no longer a problem per se since Unix & Linux SE moderators ...
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When does a post return to the top? [duplicate]
When does an old post return to the top of the question list? It seems to involve re-editing AND a window of time, i.e., if the edit is much later than the original post, it wouldn't move back to the ...
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Making a constructive workflow for new users who post "me too" [non-]answers
I've noticed (particularly on 3D Printing SE, but as I understand it this happens across many sites) a number of instances of new users wrongly posting an answer to an old question to bump it, asking ...
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How should we deal with a question being bumped repeatedly via edits performed by the author of the accepted answer?
I noticed this question had been bumped recently, and when looking at the edit history it appears that a single user edits the title repeatedly. Presumably in an effort to gain exposure for their ...
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How are spammers rate limited?
Question: Are there some additional limits for users who had some of their posts marked as spam (or rude/offensive)?
Typically, an account posting spam is a new user, with reputation 1. (Meaning that ...
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When bumped by bounty, modified timestamp should link to the bounty message
When a post gets bumped to the top of active tab due to a new bounty, the "modified" timestamp should link to the bounty message.
Background: New Community Review badges post was bumped to the top ...
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Locked question "bumped" by Community bot doesn't appear at top of homepage on web, but does appear at top in apps/the API
According to this bug report, bumping locked questions to the homepage is by design. I disagree with this, but my question is about a different, but related, issue.
A couple of times (and today is one ...
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"Bumped to the homepage by Community" after suggested edit approved by Community
It looks like there's a new message shown when Community bumps inactive questions:
Bumped to the homepage by Community 10 hours ago
This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has ...
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Do edits to closed questions bump the question?
This is an addition to the following question:
How to tell if you're making the right edits to your closed question?
So say you've edited a closed question. Does this bump it on the Active tab ...
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Is the rule "Edits must be at least 6 characters" still in place? [duplicate]
I found a post that is being bumped by the OP (so far 4 times in the last 30 days) by doing meaningless edits: deleting 1 character / adding 1 character. I think that the system has a rule to prevent ...
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Gem questions pop up
I like the way past questions pop up from time to time on the home page list of questions of the SE sites (modified by Community). But recently I've found myself wishing that supergood questions, or ...
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How can I mark a question with an out-of-date answer?
Maybe I'm missing something but an example would be this question about rails:
Rails validation over redirect
with the selected answer from 2009.
I'm sure there's now a better way to do this, is ...
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"bumped by community user" is not attributed to Community in question's timeline
I just noticed in the timeline of a question that was bumped by Community, that the event is not attributed to Community at all:
Other actions (e.g. anonymous edits) are attributed to Community ...
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Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?
Given that the Stack Overflow trilogy is to be a resource for googlers, I usually try to go back over my questions/answers and improve them in whatever way that I can. However, I feel this may be ...
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Questions with new activity on deleted answers shouldn't be bumped to users with <10k rep
When checking the home page ('Active' tab), I keep seeing questions with new activities on deleted answers (new answer, edit, etc). The only problem is I don't have the privilege to view those ...
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Organizing Edits Without Bumping [duplicate]
Why do we need this feature?
Sometimes community leaders (community members who care their community and its meta issues) decide to make some minor edits on a certain set of posts (which may include ...
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How do I get attention for a bug report or feature request that was deferred a long time ago?
As I was using the site, I had an idea for a new feature for the network.
As I searched through the Meta archives, I found that someone already asked for the same thing a long time in the past. The ...
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It should be possible to retag a question without bumping it to the front page
While bumps are generally good, there are niche cases where they are harmful:
I recently decided I would consolidate two tags on Stack Overflow: "openoffice" and "openoffice.org". They refer to ...
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Is it acceptable to dig up ancient post to fix a common misspelling
Lately I noticed quite a number of questions being bumped to the front page that are ancient. Say 8-10 years old.
These (often closed) questions are bumped back to the front page by the acceptance of ...
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Indicate publicly why questions with deleted answers are bumped
When an old question gets a new spam answer, that answer gets deleted quickly and the question gets bumped to the home page. Only users with 10,000 reputation can tell why that question is listed as &...
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Is there a limit to the number of times "community" can bump a question?
How many bumps is too many?
Is there a limit to the number of times "Community user" can bump a question? There are questions with one or more unvoted answers that do not attract views, that ...
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Allow sites to disable or otherwise tweak Community auto-bumping
So the Community user bumps posts occasionally:
Posts eligible for bumping are those scoring >= 0 that have gone at least 30 days with no activity, have at least one non-deleted answer scoring 0 ...
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Suggested Edits: Minor Edits to Old Posts - Recommended Handling
In different communities, I've noticed a not-insignificant number of proposed edits in the Suggested Edits queue. These are technically correct edits - they may fix spelling or grammar issues, make ...
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What did Yaakov do to this post?
Looking at the frontpage I saw this: (direct link to question)
I remembered seeing this as a really old question, so I decided to look what was changed in this question. First of all I though perhaps ...
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Editing old questions should bump them?
Look at this:
A fellow decided to "curate" some old questions and now the feed is completely polluted with old questions that prob don't make anymore sense, since most of them are about a buggy patch ...
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Can I get suspended for bumping my post?
I recently posted a question on sci-fi SE, which failed to garner enough views/answers/comments.
I decided to edit the title to draw more audiences, which I did, but my edit was rolled back and I was ...
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Is there a way to determine how/why when one of my posts on a network site suddenly starts getting unusual traction?
So one of my answers on a network site has suddenly attracted a few upvotes within a short span of time (within hours). This is an answer that I posted over a year ago, where it received most of its ...
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Does re-opening, using the dupe hammer, cause the question to be modified? [duplicate]
I saw my own question in the recently active question lists as this:
And I wonder what caused this specific user to show up as having modified it. I know that edits, and (deleted) answers cause a ...
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Is it considered poor form to answer old and inactive questions? (thread resurrection) [duplicate]
I think the title says it all. On some support boards and forums it is considered poor form because it causes activity that bothers some. Especially to those that monitors that site's "newest changes" ...
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Spellling and grammmar issues are overemphasize [duplicate]
tldr; Don't bump minor edits for old posts.
While we can all agree that if you notice questoin in a post, it should be corrected to question, I think we can all also agree that correction shouldn't ...
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Excavator badge awarded for editing question after Community♦ had bumped it to the home page
I just received an Excavator badge for Why can't I access my FTP server with Windows Explorer?.
However, I was just browsing the home page, not merely looking for old posts; this question appeared ...
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Trivial edits: “the internet”
Trivial edits are superficial, especially if it consists of only capitalising a single letter.
I'm talking about switching the lowercase “i” with the uppercase in the word internet. This type of edit, ...
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Trivial edits: “Stackoverflow” and “StackExchange”
Trivial edits are superficial, especially when it consists of adding a single space.
Currently, there are 9,415 results for “Stackoverflow” written as a solid compound. Some of those results spell ...
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Is the community bot ruining the community by bumping old posts?
I have been an active member of UX Stack Exchange for a little over 2 years and in that time, I have noticed the Community bot push years old posts to the top of the questions homepage.
Now, I ...
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Why does adding a duplicate bump a question if marking it as a duplicate in the first place doesn't?
I recently added questions to the list of duplicates on a couple of closed questions. To my surprise I then found those questions at the top of the homepage. This was surprising to me because closing ...
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How to draw attention to an old unanswered question on meta? [duplicate]
I encountered exactly the same problem as described in this question on Meta: Undo the Removal of an Interesting Tag. That question was asked in 2010 and got almost no response.
How could I draw an ...
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Ignoring retagged old questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
It should be possible to retag a question without bumping it to the front page.
Too much retagging
Retagging/Bumping Etiquette
Don Stewart is currently going through a lot ...
