# AutoBump Decay Over Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [November 8, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autobump-decay-over-time/132935 "2019-11-08T15:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autobump-decay-over-time/132935/8 "2019-11-10T18:08:28Z")
> [@Remah](#): > > With 10 bumps per year for one topic, i.e. one every 36 days, and 3 topics bumped per day that would be only 108 topics available to auto bump. I wouldn’t enable auto bump for that few. This point is kinda hard to grok for me, but I learned it from experience. We had a backlog in a support forum, but auto-bumping one a day and a handful of attentive helpers got through it in a couple of months, until we had two threads leap-frogging each other but no one had anything to add. So we turned it off. Now we just turn it on and off as needed, per category. 🙂 * * * That said, for practical use I don’t think autobump _needs_ stepped decay, I _personally_ think about it all time, since I also use Discourse as a personal wiki, and such a feature (say as part of the auto-timer…) would help knowledge scaffolding by providing a mechanism for [Spaced repetition - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). 🤓 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autobump-decay-over-time/132935)._