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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Question re-bumped by community every month
This question, on the electronics meta site, gets bumped by Community about exactly the same day each and every month, and that's the seventh time (see the timeline).
Why? I haven't seen that for any ...
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Automatic http to https links replacement job causing wrong "last modified by" information
I just noticed this on MSE homepage:
Curious, I clicked the link, which led to this answer. Which was NOT modified by Community:
Time stamp match, but not the user doing the action.
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Show bumps by community in apps
Since November 2016 we've had a banner on the website that identifies questions bumped by community.
Could we get something that does the same in the apps?
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Bumping locked question to the homepage [duplicate]
Locked question has been recently bumped to the homepage by Community user. Bumping used to vote for answers, but in the current locked question voting is not possible. Why the question has been ...
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Is there any way I can see if a questions has been bumped by Community? [duplicate]
Some old questions are usually "edited" by Community profiles on the network sites, in order to get more attention if they meet certain criteria.
Is there a way to know that an old question has ...
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Bumped to homepage for abandoned questions?
I've noticed that some of the questions bumped to homepage are entirely abandoned, no activity in years. Some of them are even changed due to software updates (in software development communities).
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Bumping a post without a bounty
I have a question on Stack Overflow that no one has answered after 12 hours. I don't have enough rep for a bounty, so is there any acceptable way of bumping my post? If not, what should I do to get my ...
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"bumped to the homepage" is missing in mobile theme
When a question is auto bumped to the homepage by Community, we get a notice in the full site:
However when viewed in mobile, or just mobile theme, the notice isn't there:
(used this ...
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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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How to stop the Community user from dredging up old questions over and over?
So here is an example of a question that Community has reposted to the DSP SE.
This question has been clearly answered, but no check mark perhaps because the OP has moved on. But the Community user ...
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"Bumped to the homepage" notices should link to Community ♦ user's profile
So we apparently have some nice new "Bumped to the homepage" notices that are attached to questions that are bumped by Community ♦. Nice.
All other notices attributed to Community ♦ link to ...
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Why does the Community ♦︎︎ user only bump questions with at least one answer?
According to this answer to Community ♦ seems to be bumping new questions more frequently than usual, Community ♦︎︎ user bumps questions which "have at least one non-deleted answer scoring 0".
I can'...
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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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How can I bump other users' unanswered questions? [duplicate]
I'm looking around for answers to my questions on several Stack Exchange sites and the good boy that I am I don't want to ask duplicate questions.
Often I find that there are other people who asked ...
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Do not all answers bump a question?
The question What can cause a question to be bumped? says that answers will bump a question.
However, recently I noticed some older questions not being bumped after I answered them.
One example is ...
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When the Community user bumps questions, could it say "bumped" rather than "modified"? [duplicate]
I just noticed this
I opened the question to see what the modification was. But I saw that neither the question nor the answer had been modified recently. I was about to post on meta to find out what ...
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Undeletion, Unbumping and the Potential For Abuse
There has been some concerns on how bumping can be abused to garner some extra reputation. I'm going to question the opposite. A scenario where not bumping can be abused.
Today of all days, a post was ...
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Resolving the dissonance on edits and bumps
Should we make "trivial" edits to posts? And what counts as a "trivial" edit? And when should edits or retags "bump" a post to the front page?
This long-running debate could use some resolution, or ...
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How can we make the purpose of Community "bumping" more obvious?
There's been a lot of confusion over the years regarding the automatic "bumping" of questions...
Community ♦ should discriminate more when bumping unanswered questions
Community ♦ seems to be bumping ...
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Change the community user bumps to include questions with a negatively scored answer
As per this answer the community user bumps questions when:
Note that the posts eligible for bumping are those scoring >= 0 that have gone at least 30 days with no activity, have at least one non-...
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Why do question/answer edits bump a question? [duplicate]
I was scrolling through the main page and noticed a post with significantly more views than all the others around it (this was the question: "What causes jitter?" from October '12). It took ...
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Don't make tag edits bump posts [duplicate]
Currently, editing a question's tags causes the question to be bumped to the top of the active tab. As I understand it, a question being bumped to the top of active is saying "Hey, community, ...
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Community post-bumping rampage on meta.SFF
UPDATE: After 12 hours of post-bumping Community seems to have gone back into hibernation. Sorry for the noise(?).
I know that the Community "user" sometimes bumps posts that have sat unanswered for ...
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Making small edits to my posts all the time bumps them to top; I need to stop, right? [duplicate]
I have a habit of repeatedly editing my own posts. I like to aim for perfection. Partly since the site encourages answering my own questions and treating that like a blog post.
I notice this bumps ...
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Editing a deleted answer shouldn't bump the question [duplicate]
If I edit my own deleted answer to some question, the question shouldn't be bumped on the "active" tab.
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Moderator ♦ "modified" question does not match to inside "edited" by username and timestamp
I just noticed a strange thing about the mis-match of the question's "last activity" status (i.e. modified in this case). To illustrate this better, I would like to include the following screenshots.
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Expose information about Community bumps, preferably in the Data Explorer
I would like to have some way of knowing when Community has bumped a post. Currently, unless you "catch Community in the act" (i.e. examine the question before anybody else makes a change to it or one ...
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Would it be feasible to implement a (tightly restricted) unbump?
I just came across a question on the front page of Meta from 2008. This happens about once a month. Heck, it might happen more often but I only notice when the question is wildly obsolete. Often it ...
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Can we make "non-substantive" edits fall off the front page faster than new questions?
I know that requests for a "minor edit" option come up all the time and are routinely rejected, and for good reasons. (Details can be seen, among other places, at Could we have the ability to mark a ...
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Is it possible for me to edit my answer without bumping the question up the list?
I tend to work by writing the gist of an answer, posting it, then looking up quotes and citations, adding each one, one at a time, saving in between additions, and frequently returning to improve the ...
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Should we change Community's bumps according to the amount of times a question has *already* been bumped
The Community user bumps questions regularly - and sometimes bumps the same question multiple times.
Shouldn't there should be less (or more) priority for questions that have already been bumped by ...
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Is it possible to find out how many times a certain question has been bumped by Community?
Just curious... is it possible to find out how many times and when a specific question has been bumped by the community user?
If not, can this data (if it exists) be made available (hence the feature-...
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When multiple edits are coalesced, does that mean only one bump? [duplicate]
If I write an answer, then edit it 4 minutes later, it doesn't show up as edited. Does it still bump the question?
Similarly, if I edit my answer, and then re-edit it again 4 minutes later, it only ...
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Something is wrong with posts being bumped, I think
There are two posts on the front page of Anime.SE that don't seem like they should be there.
The second post in this image is four months old. It could've been bumped by Community - but if it was, ...
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Does the votes of a question change if the question is edited?
Does the votes of a question change if the question is edited? I have the same question about the answers.
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Can the front page say if Community edited something or bumped it? [duplicate]
The Community User periodically bumps unanswered all posts (or something like that).
The annoying this with this is that it says that the question was Modified by Community. I look for what it ...
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Please do not "lie" that the Community user "modified" the question
If the Community user bumps a question, It says It has modified it:
However, It did not really modify the question, It rather just visited it. The word "modified" is a bit unfortunate IMHO because it ...
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After my question is downvoted and edited will it still reach users? [duplicate]
Say that I have asked a question on MSE and then it is downvoted, after I edit it to form a better question will my question move up the queue of questions so that people can read it again and upvote ...
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Review queue to approve edits to very old posts with/without bumping
Following up on the discussion here, I make the following proposal to address the problem of edits to lots of very old posts causing newer posts to be bumped down.
Create a new review queue for edits ...
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Is there a way / is it okay to bump feature requests? [duplicate]
I've made a couple of feature requests that haven't had any response from SE in a couple of months. Trivial things that would make working on the sites easier on a day-to-day basis.
Is there a way, ...
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Community bot raking up abandoned questions
The Community bot frequently rakes up abandoned questions, I have come across a few, for example, WD Elements 1042 usb 3.0 not recognized by Windows 7
Is it not better to put it in the review queue ...
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Undue attention to war-zone questions
Sometimes a question becomes subject to a community war if it should be closed or left open, and goes back and forth between the two sides until a mod can come along to lock it pending meta discussion ...
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What are the criteria for Community to bump a question? [duplicate]
One of the tasks of the mysterious Community user is to
Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention
We know the following:
The Community user will bump non-...
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How can I re-activate an existing question to expand on it?
I've just come across this question on SO: Implementation of achievement systems in modern, complex games
I want to expand on it with an "extra" question, and so I've added a comment. However, the ...
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What does "modified 17m ago Community♦ 1" mean
Recently found a question "modified 17m ago Community♦ 1".I can't understand how Community♦ modified it - he didn't edit it, nor its answers.He didn't poke it, if did, it would be written "poked" ...
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Last-activity link from main is wrong for Community edits
A few hours ago Community came through Mi Yodeya to update MSO links to MSE (thanks!). However, the last-modified links on the main page don't link to the posts that Community edited; they link to ...
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Does community user bump also closed question and low score questions?
One of the thing Community user does is bumping old unanswered questions.
Does this include closed questions? If a question has no upvoted answers (or even no answers at all) and the question has ...
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Getting down-votes reversed after updating answer
After improving an answer, it can be frustrating that the answer may never be reviewed again. An updated answer can often sit at the bottom of a dead post and have no one with whom to direct a reply ...
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Why was my edit to bump a question rejected?
I came to ask the question why the mobile site has no "Page not Found" page, and
I found it had been asked two years ago, and had no answers: Design “Page Not Found” page for Mobile
In attempting to ...
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Community user does not bump questions that never had an answer
One of the duties of the community user is to
Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention
according to the Community user FAQ.
This seems to only happen for ...
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