AutoBump Decay Over Time

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

FYI, a related issue is how to prevent topics receiving no replies i.e. the silence mentioned here:

Reply reminder - Remind users to reply to new users topics with zero replies

One of the important things for a new user is: to get a reply when they first post a topic to feel like there is a community (or at least someone out there). If a user’s topic doesn’t get a reply they are: less likely to return share the new found community with others A “Staff” member might quickly glance at the topic whilst on the go (removing it from the unread list) meaning to come back to it later that day. there is something more important to reply to right now. “that’s going to t…

There is also a plugin to tag all new topics so the tag can be changed when there is action:

GitHub - discourse/discourse-unhandled-tagger: Simple plugin that tags topics...

The source of those links is a sort discussion about idle topics