# 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")\
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**Author:** ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@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")

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> 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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