# Reply to topic without bumping it to the top

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-topic-without-bumping-it-to-the-top/19448
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [29. August 2014 um 22:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-topic-without-bumping-it-to-the-top/19448 "2014-08-29T22:12:47Z")
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### Author: ![haiku](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/haiku/32/103858_2.png) [@haiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haiku)
#### Post date: [30. August 2014 um 22:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-topic-without-bumping-it-to-the-top/19448/9 "2014-08-30T22:36:43Z")

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> [@elberet](#):
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> If posting replies without bumping the topic were possible, it would become too easy to hide just about any kind of content in year-old threads. Your Discourse forum could be made to host all kinds of smut, SEO links or copyright infringing uploads (just find an abandoned thread in a suitably busy forum and put your junk in there without bumping the topic) and the chances of an admin or mod finding that stuff are slim to none.

I don’t have any preference for this feature either way, but I don’t think that is a valid reason to keep it out. [There are other ways to do what you’re talking about already](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373/20).

The solution should be to improve moderation tools, not to forbid certain features that might be useful to someone. A page in the admin panel which showed a gallery of recent uploads, recent edits, etc. would be a much better fix to this problem.

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