Allow only new posts to constitute a change

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The discussion revolves around controlling topic bumps in a specific category. mr_scary wants to edit the original post without triggering a bump in the ‘latest changed posts’ feed, while allowing new posts to still cause bumps. omarfilip explains that editing the OP only bumps the topic if it’s the only post, and suggests resetting the timestamp to avoid the bump. codinghorror clarifies that the ‘reset bump’ command is for staff and shows how to prevent a bump when replying via the editor. mr_scary confirms that ‘Toggle topic bump’ and ‘reset bump’ are staff-only features. Stephen asks about the Discourse version and the user’s role.

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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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  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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And the timestamp needs to be earlier than the real edited time?

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Make it whatever it was before you edited the post.

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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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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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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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My bad. I meant I don’t see ‘Toggle topic bump’.

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What version of Discourse is this?

Are you an administrator or moderator?