# Old topic containing newly deleted post still appears at the top

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-containing-newly-deleted-post-still-appears-at-the-top/31627>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [01.Август.2015 02:17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-containing-newly-deleted-post-still-appears-at-the-top/31627 "2015-08-01T02:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisalley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisalley/32/119703_2.png) [@chrisalley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisalley)\
**Post date:** [01.Август.2015 02:17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-topic-containing-newly-deleted-post-still-appears-at-the-top/31627/1 "2015-08-01T02:17:40Z")

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A spam user recently revived some old topics from years ago, pushing the topics to the top of the list (when ordering topics by “Latest”). Upon deleting the user, and their posts, the topics still appear at the top of the list. This seems confusing for other users who may ask “why were these old topics appearing at the top of the list that don’t contain new posts?”

Is there a way to revert the topics to their correct position in the list (chronologically)? IMO it would make sense for this to happen by default, but perhaps there is a good design decision behind the current behaviour.

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