# Allow only new posts to constitute a change
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880 "2019-04-12T18:12:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@mr\_scary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr_scary)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/1 "2019-04-12T18:12:14Z")
I would like to be able to edit topics (original post) in a certain category **without** that making the topic show up in people’s latest changed posts (terminology?). However, I **would** like this to happen for new posts in the topics. Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/2 "2019-04-12T18:19:05Z")
1. The topic won’t get bumped by editing the OP unless that is the only post in that topic. In that case you can change the timestamp after editing and that will remove the bump.
2. New posts already behave this way.
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### Author:  [@mr\_scary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr_scary)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/3 "2019-04-12T18:42:05Z")
> [@omarfilip](#):
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> The topic won’t get bumped by editing the OP unless that is the only post in that topic. In that case you can change the timestamp after editing and that will remove the bump.
And the timestamp needs to be earlier than the real edited time?
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/4 "2019-04-12T18:44:33Z")
Make it whatever it was before you edited the post.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/5 "2019-04-12T23:40:15Z")
After the fact, use the “reset bump” command on the topic staff wrench.
If you are writing a post that will bump, you can select no bump from the reply drop down in the editor, like so:
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### Author:  [@mr\_scary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr_scary)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/6 "2019-04-13T01:10:06Z")
What does “reset bump” do? Anyway, I don’t see it.
I also do not see ‘Reply as linked topic’.
These things must be for people in the ‘staff’ group.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/7 "2019-04-13T01:22:47Z")
Yes, you would need to be staff for either kind of reset bump. Reply as linked topic is not a staff action though.
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### Author:  [@mr\_scary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr_scary)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/8 "2019-04-13T01:36:34Z")
My bad. I meant I don’t see ‘Toggle topic bump’.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/9 "2019-04-13T02:04:18Z")
What version of Discourse is this?
Are you an administrator or moderator?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-new-posts-to-constitute-a-change/114880/11 "2022-07-09T09:11:18Z")