# Allow bumping for topics with zero replies
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 21, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366 "2023-07-21T08:14:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/1 "2023-07-21T08:14:10Z")
> Suggested improvement for the [bump functionality](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/)
> [@Automatically bumping old topics on a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/):
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> On certain categories it makes sense to bump old topics automatically on a regular basis. On buying/selling categories in can make sense to regularly bump visibility while a topic is open and item is still on sale. In #Support categories it may make sense to bump old topics in case they were forgotten Till now the only way to raise visibility was to “edit” the last post of a topic or post a bump reply. Both of these solutions are not ideal. We just added a new category setting called: N…
On busy forums (~50+ topics per day), it can be good to re-surface questions that haven’t received any reply after a period of time.
This is similar to the existing bumping functionality, which looks at “unanswered (= without an accepted answer), non-closed” topics.
This proposed change would instead offer an option to _only_ look for “no replies, non-closed” instead.
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/5 "2023-07-21T10:05:45Z")
Hi Bas
Was this recently implemented on the OpenAI forum?
I ask because these are being noticed, flagged, reviewed and often closed.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/6 "2023-07-21T10:07:57Z")
I think bumping was recently turned on indeed, but that is the original, before this proposed change.
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/8 "2023-07-21T10:16:06Z")
Thanks
Sorry to say but you are now on my usual suspects list for things like this on OpenAI in a good way. It is that your background, what you do at Discourse and your access all converged as evidence on this one. 🙂
Take care,
Eric
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/10 "2023-07-23T11:39:44Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> On busy forums (~50+ topics per day), it can be good to re-surface questions that haven’t received any reply after a period of time.
Also consider this.
If the topic is a question seeking an answer, then has the OP visited the site in the last 30 days and if a solution has been checked for a reply.
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As OpenAI category API is currently set to bump several topics a day many are getting flagged by users so that moderators can decide to close them if needed. In checking one such flag a few minutes ago for a question topic also checked the last visit of the OP which was over 2 years ago and no reply was marked as a solution. As the OP will most not likely not care at this point, is there any benefit to such a topic being bumped?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/11 "2023-07-24T05:33:22Z")
I find it kind of hard to explain, I guess the proposal is to add to:
`Only bump topics with zero replies`
However, this then just opens up the door to the “sometimes I want X and sometimes I want Y” problem. (eg: no reply bump 3 a day, any reply - as soon as one year old and unclosed - bump 2 a day)
I feel this is a good fit for the #automation plugin, we can allow for complex rules in that case which can catch edge cases like this, plus we would allow stacking.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/12 "2023-07-24T10:07:27Z")
Automation would work yes!
If I understand things correctly, then it cannot do it in it’s current state though, right?
So we’d need to add either a trigger (“no replies after x hours”) or an action script (“check for replies after x hours”)?
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/13 "2023-07-26T15:58:02Z")
Here is an example on this site were the topic was automatically bumped then closed by a moderator+.
> [@Forum Link Checker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-link-checker/122679):
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> Does anyone know of a link checker that would work with the forum? There are a bunch of external links which have been moved. And others need to be deleted.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/14 "2024-11-29T23:00:39Z")
That would be great!
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-bumping-for-topics-with-zero-replies/272366/15 "2025-10-19T03:57:37Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> So we’d need to add either a trigger (“no replies after x hours”) or an action script (“check for replies after x hours”)?
Just noting that [Discourse Automation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773) has this trigger now:
> Stalled topic: Triggers when a topic has not received replies after a certain time