# Is there a way to prevent a topic from bumping?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-a-topic-from-bumping/151490>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-a-topic-from-bumping/151490 "2020-05-14T13:37:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![amundo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amundo/32/177576_2.png) [@amundo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amundo)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-a-topic-from-bumping/151490/3 "2020-05-14T20:24:37Z")

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If I’m not mistaken that updates the bump time to now, right? What I’m hoping to do is something like make the bump time of the thread “clamped” to say, relatlively 12 hours ago, so that other posts today won’t be pushed down below it.

(But maybe this is plugin territory.)

_PS, wow, you’re Jeff Atwood. 🙂 Thanks for all the stuff you do! Discourse is rad!_

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