# Automatically bumping old topics on a category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature, auto-bump\
**Created:** [7월 17, 2018, 5:25오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518 "2018-07-17T05:25:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [1월 10, 2019, 11:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/34 "2019-01-10T11:22:16Z")

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Hopefully I will be corrected if I’m wrong, but here’s how I understand it worded a little differently.

The automatic bumping process will run as long as there is at least one topic that is:

- Open (has not been locked/archived)
- Visible (has not been unlisted)
- Not the automatically generated “About” topic of a category
- Not pinned
- A topic that was bumped less that 24 hours ago (I think this is just checking that the category isn’t inactive? This is the only point I’m not 100% clear on.)

I think this also implies that:

- A closed topic will not be bumped
- An unlisted topic will not be bumped
- An archived topic will not be bumped
- The automatically generated “About” topic for a category will not be bumped
- A pinned topic will not be bumped

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