Just in the early phases with a first forum, as an admin I added tags to some of the older topics and my impression is that as a result those topics appeared at the top of the list of topics for users checking in, above the new topic. Is there a way to avoid that happening.. to tag topics without affecting where they appear in the list of topics seen by users? Thanks

Topics are bumped when the last post in a topic is edited, for single post topics this includes tagging. It won’t occur when tagging topics which have replies.

You can reset the bump date when editing any single-post topic: [image] Reply without bumping topic megaphoneAnnouncements As a staff member you sometimes have the need to post a reply without bumping the topic to the top of the list. And now you can do exactly that. There’s a new “Toggle topic bump” in the composer’s reply selector. [image] An anchor will appear at the top of the composer when bumping is disabled. [image] Another new feature is the “Reset Bump Date” action in topic wrench menu. It changes the topic’s bump date to the date of the last visible post in the topic. That’s quite useful when the l… [image]

Thanks. In my case these were indeed single-post topics, so that solved the problem there. Is there any recommendation in respect to multi-posts topics, which I’d expect to be an issue in the future, with all the tagging done to topics by staff?

Tagging topics without affecting topic placement

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Stephen (Stephen) December 4, 2018, 4:05pm 2

You can reset the bump date when editing any single-post topic:

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Prevent a Topic from appearing in the recent list when its tags are modified Product Support	8	665	March 25, 2023
Reply without bumping topic Announcements new-feature	5	5080	August 13, 2018
When does adding a tag to a topic cause the topic to be bumped? Feature	4	1254	January 18, 2018
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Tagging topics without affecting topic placement

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