# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@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")

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I find it kind of hard to explain, I guess the proposal is to add to:

 ![shot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/4/6/b46162a408ef0531cb73361fe36cd61078cf06c0.png)

`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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