A softer slow mode: slow bumps?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@mbauman

One tool I wish I had in my toolbox for situations like these is to slow down the bumping of the topic. The default listings (both latest and top) prioritize these “hot” topics. I’d love to be able to limit the bumps to once-every-12-hours or some such. Then it’s not a complete de-listing, but it’s a significant de-emphasizing that could help limit the number of new entrants to the discussion (unless they actively seek it out, which is just fine

I don’t really understand what you are proposing. Can you show me a UI mockup of how this would work, what the user would see, what the staff member would see?

@StefanKarpinski

slow mode gets turned on and some people start editing their posts instead of writing new ones.

That’s why editing is limited by default in Slow Mode. You can turn off the editing limits if you trust your community not to do this.

And consider what @sam said. Make the topic unlisted. Please make full use of the existing tools in your toolkit before proposing more.