Reply to topic without bumping it to the top

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@fysics

It was necessary to add additional information for future readers of the thread, but there was no reason for my post to elevate the topic to the top of current discussions.

I actually strongly disagree with your example here. It is a perfect reason for bumping a topic.

There are 2 reasons I think bumping is critical.

1. Alert others of a solution / progress on a topic.
2. Prevent abuse

(2) is only covered partially as you can still edit earlier posts in a topic, and in a high scale forum have it go unnoticed. @howtogeek has discussed this with us in the past.

If anything I think we need even more intelligent bumping of topics, not less.