# Inconsistency editing topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 21, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363 "2015-08-21T07:00:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/1 "2015-08-21T07:00:25Z")
If I edit a topic that has responses, to either fix a title, add a tag, or recategorise, the topic remains as-is in the posting order.
If I edit a topic that has no responses, it’s bumped to the top.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/2 "2015-08-21T11:28:00Z")
This is intentional, as you are in essence editing the last post, which bumps the topic to the top too.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/3 "2015-08-21T11:44:18Z")
I understand why it’s happening technically, although I keep that speculation out of my reports.
Either way it’s poor UX. It bumps posts that nobody responded to towards the top of the latest page, pushing active discussions down.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/4 "2015-08-21T11:48:15Z")
Unless you account for: “They could have altered the intent of the topic or its content to where it has now become a different discussion that may be of interest now”
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/5 "2015-08-21T11:50:13Z")
Regardless, this is not a bug, it is by design, feel free to propose a new design but keep in mind that by disabling bump behaviour you would have some pretty serious side effects.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/6 "2015-08-21T12:12:47Z")
To clarify:
- editing the title, or adding tags to a thread that has no responses is an intentional bump
- editing the title or tagging a thread that has responses doesn’t bump the thread
The above behaviour is intentional and by design, rather than a side effect of the criteria of an edit on the most recent post in the thread?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/7 "2015-08-21T17:13:08Z")
Editing the **last post in the topic** , whether that topic has zero replies or 12, will bump.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/8 "2015-08-21T17:26:02Z")
I guess that’s the problem here, technically the topic title and tags are considered part of the first post, which can also be the last if there are zero replies, but to a user they’re properties of the thread.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/9 "2015-08-21T17:28:50Z")
Sure, I can see category, but edits to the body of the first post, if the first post is the only post in the topic, is certainly a bump. And title, too, IMO.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/10 "2015-08-21T17:32:12Z")
That prevents our community manager from doing basic housekeeping though.
If a title needs correcting (or amendment, for whatever reason) or tagging for future discoverability it pushes current discussion down on latest.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/11 "2015-08-21T17:33:27Z")
Add a reply to the topic if that’s the case – is there any reason these topics must have zero replies?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/12 "2015-08-21T17:34:25Z")
I’m not sure how that helps. These are topics that nobody has responded to, that nobody wants to respond to for whatever reason. Tidying them up shouldn’t thrust them back to the front, surely?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/13 "2015-08-21T23:00:19Z")
There was some talk of allowing a “non bumping mod/admin edit” but none of our paying customers ever asked for this so its not super high on our list. Its a mod/admin feature we would be open to adding if there was demand.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistency-editing-topics/32363/14 "2025-12-04T11:36:56Z")