# Check a box in post editor to prevent edit bump

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-a-box-in-post-editor-to-prevent-edit-bump/13544>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-a-box-in-post-editor-to-prevent-edit-bump/13544 "2014-03-09T03:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-a-box-in-post-editor-to-prevent-edit-bump/13544/3 "2014-03-09T03:35:39Z")

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Only bumps if the last post is edited. Unless we are talking about an _extremely_ slow moving conversation, it is exceedingly unlikely that this would be a problem in practice. I rarely see edit bumps “in the wild” on any existing Discourse forum.

So really, not a problem in practice.

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