Hopefully I will be corrected if I’m wrong, but here’s how I understand it worded a little differently.
The automatic bumping process will run as long as there is at least one topic that is:
- Open (has not been locked/archived)
- Visible (has not been unlisted)
- Not the automatically generated “About” topic of a category
- Not pinned
- A topic that was bumped less that 24 hours ago (I think this is just checking that the category isn’t inactive? This is the only point I’m not 100% clear on.)
I think this also implies that:
- A closed topic will not be bumped
- An unlisted topic will not be bumped
- An archived topic will not be bumped
- The automatically generated “About” topic for a category will not be bumped
- A pinned topic will not be bumped