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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Ideas for calling attention to questions in Meta of SE sites without bounty
In other sites of Stack Exchange the Meta has no bounty system.
I'm taking part of the new created Stack Overflow PT were the engaged community posts all the suggestion, bugs and questions that are ...
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Questions auto bumped by the Community User even though they are locked
https://serverfault.com/questions/159509/printer-on-different-networkip-range-can-i-print-to-it
This question on Server Fault was just bumped to the front page like any other question that has no ...
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How can I edit my question to make it "active" without taking credit from a previous editor? [duplicate]
I asked a question with bad grammar and poor quality because I have poor English skills. Another experienced user edited my question. I really appreciated his editing and am very grateful to him.
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How do I hide questions that are bumped by the Community user?
I am not interested in questions bumped by the Community user. Often times, they are too old to be answered, or already have correct but unaccepted answers.
How do I hide questions bumped by this ...
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How to bump a question with no useful answers? [duplicate]
My question: Unable to change options for Twitter Bootstrap modal WHILE visible
It has two answers, but neither one answers my question. (Note, also, that both answers are from the same user) Is ...
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Bump a deleted answer when it's undeleted, not when it's edited
When a deleted answer is edited, that bumps the thread to the front page and to the active questions list. When a deleted answer is undeleted, that does not bump the thread.
That edits on a deleted ...
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Please split edit queue in two
When people make small edits that don't impact content, the edit still causes the question to show on the front page. Also, if someone wants to make a change that is less than five characters, they ...
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Don't let late answers bump an _answered_ question until approval
I don't know what percentage of late answers are actually worth bumping an old but answered question at all, but I'm pretty sure if said late answer is, then the bumping could at least wait until the ...
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Detagging 'featured' should not bump
When the featured tag is removed from a question, the question is bumped, as with any other edit. I propose that, when that is the only change to a question, it not be bumped: the point of detagging ...
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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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Community ♦ seems to be bumping new questions more frequently than usual
On Chemistry.SE:
These are all Community ♦ bumps, separated by exactly one hour (They occur on hour:38:16 UTC). Could the bot be sedated please? We're a 4-questions-per-day site; a bump an hour is ...
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Suggested edit rejected as spam bumps question to the front page
Today I saw this question in the front page of Meta:
StackOverflow has become useless for me : |
Some user seemed to have edited it 6 hours ago, as the question footer said in the front page: "...
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The problem with automatically bumping edited posts [duplicate]
I've been reminded several times that a question on a SE site should be able to help future visitors. Indeed, it's very common for a question to be closed for being too specific.
At the same time, we ...
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Make it clear what triggered a bump when user follows the link
Currently, when you click the Active: Today link following a bump event, you will mostly be shown what event triggered the bump.
I think this works well for new answers and comments. You navigate to ...
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Active Today link missing for question edit bump
See this question.
Algorithm for hours occupied in day by tasks
It was asked yesterday, edited just now, which caused it to be bumped to the top of the list.
Usually when something is bumped there ...
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Community user bumps questions from inactive users [duplicate]
Lately, this Electrical Engineering question was bumped by the Community user. The question is of December 4, but the asker didn't log in after December 9.
I wonder if it's useful to bump questions ...
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Will anyone notice that I edited my (closed) question? [duplicate]
I asked a question on SO, and it was closed as non constructive.
I then edited it, that is, I completely rewrote it, trying to make it convey that what I'm asking is: "how do I accomplish this?"
I'...
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Which actions bumps up old question to the first pages? [duplicate]
I meant following pages when I say "first pages"
All questions - https://stackoverflow.com/questions
Top questions - https://stackoverflow.com/
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Any consideration to preventing tactical edits, which can be used to generate artificial Question exposure? [duplicate]
Today I discovered (and confirmed) how to tactically edit questions or answers in order to generate exposure to the associated question(s). By editing a question (which might not be mine, which I ...
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Editing a question doesn't pop it high in the question list anymore?
I'm wondering if this a new change in SO.
This question of mine was asked 7 hours ago. I edited it twice now. Both the times I couldn't see it popped up in the SO question list. Previously whenever I ...
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Does an upvote on an answer bring the question to the top of the recent list?
I was wondering about this for some time.
It already happened to me several times in SO that I had an answer inactive for about an year and then my answer started receiving a bunch of upvotes once ...
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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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10 edits rule - not enough for own changes in own answer
When giving detailed answers like this, it is very easily possible to produce more than 10 edits. And this, without any disputes or other contradictory interaction with other users. In that particular ...
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Why does editing my question cause more people to see it?
So I just discovered this meta site a bit ago and I must say its pretty neat having a Q&A site about a Q&A site but anyways...
My question relates back to a question I asked on Stack Overflow....
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Is it possible to bump a question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can cause my question to be bumped?
If I asked a question and there were very few views after couple days and no answers, is it possible to bump it instead of duplicating ...
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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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Non-active edit button [duplicate]
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Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
Can trivial edits not bump the question?
I see that another round of "lets tidy up" has happened,...
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Can we add 'asked', 'answered', 'edited' text to each question featured on the front page?
When I'm looking down the front page on dba.se, I often wish I could tell at a glance what happened to the question to bump it there. Sometimes it is obvious from looking at the number of answers, ...
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Feature to 'POP Up' a question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please add a way to 'bump' questions back to the front page
I used to be part of communities on Orkut, where when a question would not get enough responses, and get ...
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Wouln't it be cool if you could bump just once? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please add a way to 'bump' questions back to the front page
I know how much of i nightmare it would be if you where able to bump up a question...
But i often find ...
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What events result in 'bumping' of a question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can cause my question to be bumped?
The obvious are edits and new answers, however sometimes I notice something else is triggering the bumping. I suspect casting a (not ...
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Is it possible to push your unanswered question to the front page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get attention for old, unanswered questions?
I was wondering if it was possible to push your question on Stack Overflow back to the front if it has not been answered ...
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Why doesn't editing my question make it active again?
I tried another method to solve my problem, and edited my question about that an hour ago. It did not bump it and the right sidebar does not say "Active (date)". This is the question:
How to ...
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General predicament. Ways to bump? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?
I ran into a predicament, with StackExchange, a few months ago, and I wish to know if there is a practical solution. ...
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CHAOS-like option for moderators to edit without bumping
CHAOS members have (had?) the ability to edit posts without bumping:
Because they are doing so many edits at once, CHAOS operates in a special mode where editing a title does not bump it to the ...
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Do migrated questions get bumped to the front page?
When a question gets migrated, does it get bumped to the front page of the target site?
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When a question gets reopened, it should get a bump
When a question gets reopened, it should get a bump. By the time a post gets reopened, it's often fallen off the main page. Reopening implies that it's a decent question that's worthy of attention, so ...
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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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Why is the question not bumped by a bounty?
I've just added a bounty to a question, but the question was not bumped to interesting questions list! Tried for cca 10 minutes and nothing. Why?
Reading these references, it should be:
What can ...
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Questions bumped by Community aren't updated live
Well, you know the drill, same deal as before.
If a question is bumped by Community, it doesn't appear as a question with new activity for people who are using the new realtime thingadongdong.
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Is bumping old questions allowed?
I'm very much new to Stack Overflow, and I do a LOT of searching regarding issues I run into. Most the time I find a really helpful question with answers like this or this, but after working on ...
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How many down votes does it take on meta for a question to stop from being bumped? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How many downvotes to push an active question off the “active” list?
The ranking mechanism is different from the main sites, but how different?
On main it seems ...
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Can closing as a duplicate bump the duplicated post if it has no answer?
If there's a dupe question it usually means it's a popular topic, or there's a demand for a solution to a certain recurring problem. Sometimes we close dupes in reference to old, unanswered questions. ...
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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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Clearing an edit sets the wrong active date on the topic
Added on Feb 8: Data.SE query find over 900 affected topics on trilogy. See section Affected topics.
See section Impact below for why this bug is bad.
Description
There is a bug in setting the wrong ...
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Adding post notices bumps questions, but removing them doesn't
I just saw this on the main page of MSO and clicked the "10h ago" link to see what change Adam made:
I was taken to the top of the question page with no indication of what activity Adam performed. So ...
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Unbump a question if the answer providing the bump is deleted
I noticed that this question got bumped to the front page recently. By clicking the ?lastactivity link I was taken to just the top of the question and saw no edits or answers since November, which ...
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Let experienced users silently edit their posts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?
How feasible and desirable would it be to allow users with some minimal rep—say, 2K? 5K?—to edit their ...
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Why haven't my edits been bumping questions?
An edit to a question or answer always bumps the question, right? Well, not in this case:
As you can see, I'm on the main page (which sorts by active (which is affected by edit bumping), right?). ...
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Does editing still bump a question?
Many times in the past I've edited a somewhat recent answer—say, from 30 minutes ago—and noticed that the concomitant question didn't bump to the top. I just confirmed it with this answer; the ...
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