The discussion revolves around a topic that remains at the top of the list due to a deleted post. chrisalley encounters this issue and questions why the topic remains at the top even after the post is deleted. codinghorror explains that deleted posts can still be the last post in a topic, and Bones correctly guesses that posts are “soft deleted.” cpradio confirms that posts can be undeleted.
dandv shares an example of this issue on meta.discourse.org, where a topic from 2014 appears at the top due to a deleted post. zogstrip mentions that fixing this issue would require a significant refactor.
The discussion also touches on the accuracy of tooltips, with dandv arguing that the tooltip is incorrect, while Mittineague counters that the tooltip is technically correct.
Later, E-junkie_Guru revives the topic, seeking a solution to manually refresh last-updated timestamps to ignore deleted posts. codinghorror responds that a feature is now available to reset the bump date by activating the staff wrench and selecting “Reset Bump Date.”
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.
This topic is the latest as of right now, but the latest post there is from December 2014.
The tooltip of the Activity cell claims there was a post today, but clicking it reveals the newest post is still from December 2014. Was that post deleted? In that case, this is a false activity signal.
I understand the technical reason why these topics remain at the top. From a non-technical standpoint (particularly, from the point of view of a user who cannot see the deleted posts), I don’t understand why the topics would still be at the top.
That is semantics. As a developer, I understand why you are technically correct.
As a user, it doesn’t make any sense to see “Last post: yesterday”, click that to see the last post, and see that the actual last post is from months ago. Why would a user who can’t see a deleted post care that there was a deleted post? That partially defeats the point of having the post deleted.
Imagine Gmail doing that to your inbox every time it automatically deletes spam:
Hey @Mittineague, new mail! Last one is from 1 second ago!*
Has this been resolved somehow, perhaps with some feature to manually refresh last-updated timestamps to ignore deleted posts? Sorry to necro this old thread, but Search couldn’t find a more recent or relevant one.
Today we had to block+suspend a user and delete their >50 spam posts (and reset our Rate Limits which allowed that to happen, whoops!), but the ancient threads they necro-spammed are still showing up with recent timestamps and listed in our Latest Topics accordingly.
Agora temos um recurso para isso: ative a chave de fenda da equipe e selecione “Redefinir Data de Destaque”. Isso redefinirá o tópico para a data de atividade do último tópico atualmente visível.
