There is an option to reset the bump date of a topic. I’m not sure what the exact behavior behind the scenes is, but it’s useful for removing things from Latest when someone necrobumps them or you have to edit a topic with no replies.
This feature does not work if there is a moderation action e.g. “X unlisted / locked this topic” as the last post. If it is deleted, Reset Bump Date works again.
@maja can you have a look?
When resetting bump date on topic, it resets it to the time of the last visible post (including moderator and small actions) - this is by design.
I assume the flow you have is:
It seems like it would make sense to reset bump date to the time last regular post was created since moderator actions don’t normally bump the topic when triggered anyway, maybe @gerhard can tell if there’s reason against this, since he initially implemented this feature.
It’s fine to ignore small action posts. I simply didn’t consider that case when I implemented this feature.
I think the only time a small action should count as a post is when it is edited to give it some type of message. eg. “thanks everyone”, “please flag to reopen” etc. in which case I want it bumped.
What I usually do is delete the small action then do the bump reset.
I get that, but feels like way too much of an edge case to allow for, plus you may want to bypass it as well even in that case.
@maja feel free to go with “reset to first non small action post”.
This is done 