# Auto-delete system messages for bumping old topics after the topic gets a reply
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561 "2020-04-10T16:45:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/1 "2020-04-10T16:45:22Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Automatically bumping old topics on a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/61):
after the system bumped an old topic, and the topic gets some new replies, the bumping notification is not needed anymore. and it’d be **less distracting** if the system message gets deleted.
our admins do this by hand. I wonder if there could be a feature to remove the notification automatically.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/2 "2020-04-10T20:26:29Z")
Don’t agree with this. The historical evidence of bump is useful and relevant to the topic.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/3 "2020-04-11T06:08:49Z")
I don’t get the point. may you explain more how can it be useful to the topic?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/4 "2020-04-11T06:39:44Z")
It means the topic wasn’t discovered and replied to, it took the bump to surface it.
It shows whether bumping is effective or not. Delete the notification and you can’t look back to see.
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/5 "2020-04-11T07:22:16Z")
Pretty sure you can use CSS to hide it.
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### Author:  [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/6 "2020-04-11T07:49:00Z")
> [@Pad\_Pors](#):
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> our admins do this by hand. I wonder if there could be a feature to remove the notification automatically.
Agree it is a very good idea to keep this, especially as @codinghorror mentioned, it is relevant and important information; however:
If you must get rid of it, in this example (on the image, not on the actual notice) try a simple jQuery or a JS selector since the p element of that “auto bumped” notification has no CSS class nor id (see image). Looks like the closest class is “content” but I am guessing that class (did not check the source) appears more than once; so it might take some “selector finesse” to select it…
**Update: The CSS selector idea above is only an _example_ based on the image, not the actual autobump notice. Need to inspect an actual notice**
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-delete-system-messages-for-bumping-old-topics-after-the-topic-gets-a-reply/147561/7 "2025-05-28T21:17:17Z")
Hi, would that be a good idea to keep only the last auto bump message and not keep the whole history of them, which looks to me useless?