# Is it possible to reply to a topic without bumping it?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423 "2021-07-28T11:09:46Z")
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### Author: ![DonaldH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@DonaldH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DonaldH)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423/1 "2021-07-28T11:09:46Z")

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Sometimes I want to reply to a person, to answer a question, without “bumping” or “signal-boosting” their topic to the top of “Latest”. Is there some way to do that, as a user, or some way to enable that as an admin in the configuration settings?

I can DM the person to answer the question in their post but then everybody else who sees their post won’t know it’s already been answered or responded to.

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423/2 "2021-07-28T11:22:43Z")

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If you are a staff member then yes there is.

1. When you are composing a reply press where read arrow is indicating.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/1/31f71422fcdddbf42aabd1f6ca8d08d22165786f.png)

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1. Select this option

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/f/3fa48bf08d67585e64a64db6835f51594aad507d.png)

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### Author: ![DonaldH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@DonaldH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DonaldH)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423/3 "2021-07-28T12:10:32Z")

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Thank you. I wonder if the Discourse dev team would consider allowing admins to toggle that feature on for regular users as well.

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423/4 "2021-07-28T16:29:09Z")

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Not sure. I’ll let them answer that 😉

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-reply-to-a-topic-without-bumping-it/198423/5 "2021-07-28T21:15:04Z")

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Can you explain the use case in detail? It’s not something that I remember being requested before.