Add setting to control topic bump from "small action posts"

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@JammyDodger

I think there is a sneaky user preference that may help in this situation - ‘Consider topics unread when they are closed’.

Thanks @JammyDodger. This is an effective workaround for the individual user, but I am requesting a solution the administrator can apply to the entire forum.

@JammyDodger

there doesn’t appear to be an admin setting to choose the default in the same way as a lot of the other user preferences (the ones in /admin/site_settings/category/user_preferences). That might be a nice addition.

It would, but that would only solve the problem for users who created an account after the time the default was changed, right?

@JammyDodger

when you say ‘bumped’ do you mean that they get the blue unread indicator and appear in /unread?

Correct.

@JammyDodger

I think the auto-close timers use a ‘silent’ version of closing already where it suppresses the unread indicators, so hopefully those ones are not appearing in /unread lists.

I have personally verified that they do appear in the /unread lists.