# Maximum age for auto-bumped topics?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** auto-bump
**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599 "2019-01-26T09:45:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599/1 "2019-01-26T09:45:47Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Automatically bumping old topics on a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518):
> [@Automatically bumping old topics on a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518/1):
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> IF there exists an **non-closed** , **visible** , **non-archived** , **non category description** and **non-pinned** topic
Any chance that you might add an option to limit this to posts not older than x days?
That would allow us to use it in such a way that we vigorously bump neglected topics for a certain period of time, but if they don’t get a reply despite all that bumping, we’ll let them sink down to the bottom of the the sea, i.e. stop bumping them (but not closing them either).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599/2 "2019-01-26T15:01:03Z")
Hmmm before we add a new setting here, maybe auto close topics after they reach a certain age?
This would also solve the exact same problem just in a tiny bit of a different way.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599/3 "2019-01-26T18:50:57Z")
Hm, I’m not a big fan of auto-closing topics, especially when they haven’t really been dealt with…
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maximum-age-for-auto-bumped-topics/107599/4 "2021-02-28T10:28:06Z")
+1 for adding an age-limit. Necro bumping [like this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upgrade-the-forum-from-v2-0-0-beta9-to-2-1-0-beta3/93277/10) is quite annoying. (Yes, I do see the irony in replying 2 years later 😂 )