Stopping older topics from resurfacing

Is there a way to stop older topics from appearing at the top when someone has recently commented on them? I mean something like a proper feed that doesn’t rely on the last activity.

On what would it rely? Topic creation’s date?

You can append a query string to do this: https://meta.discourse.org/latest/?order=created

But I don’t think there’s such a filter directly available from the navigation.

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You could mute it.

It’s considered proper to show you topics with new posts unless you indicate you don’t want to see that topic anymore.

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Mute would work for a single topic, right? Instead, is there an option that prevents it from resurfacing all the topics?

I assume you’re asking as an admin and you want to change this for all users.

Perhaps locking/closing topics is the answer?

Or if this is just an infrequent situation, as admin you can ‘reset bump date’ to put a topic back down to where it was.