I cannot find a setting that would allow me to specify the number of days after which if someone replies to a topic, it doesn’t get bumped up to the top on the “latest” tab.

Topics only get bumped to the top if there is a response (or you have the auto bump setting on).

[image] HAWK: Topics only get bumped to the top if there is a response Thats what, I don’t want it to come to top even if someone replies to it if the original topic was created n days ago.

If it’s in one particular category you could suppress it from latest, but if you’re talking generally then I can’t think of a way.

This would practically make all “older” topic die out. You would only get newly created topics and those without any “gap” or “cooling period” (when there was no replies), in your latest. It would seem to go against the usual wish to not always create new topics, but first search for existing ones t…

I am working on a political forum that incentivizes creating topics that get likes. So to prevent users from abusing the bump up to get more likes I want to prevent bump up for topics older than n days. Also to prevent users from creating new topics I am working on a plugin that will assign new topi…

[image] hyd504: political forum that incentivizes creating topics that get likes So, you want to do what most admins here try to avoid. I love it :wink: Usually, people adapt. I’m convinced you will have clever cookies who will soon figure out creative ways to game the system if it’s possibl…

You could unlist them after a time

Basically you are describing Reddit. The idea is time weighs so heavily on a topic that it has to be exponentially popular to still be on the homepage after a week. Is that the goal?

[image] codinghorror: Basically you are describing Reddit. Exactly! However, for that I will be using the hot-topics-plugin which is currently marked as broken and needs some work. In the meanwhile I wanted to see if I could prevent bump ups older than n day in a quick and easy way.

Is there a setting to prevent old topics from getting bumped after n days?

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hyd504 February 15, 2021, 10:20pm 5

Hmm. I found this: Discourse No Bump

But still this is not exactly what I want.

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Is there a setting to prevent old topics from getting bumped after n days?

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