# Tagging topics without affecting topic placement

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473 "2018-12-04T15:38:40Z")
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### Author: ![sronan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sronan/32/101105_2.png) [@sronan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sronan)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473/1 "2018-12-04T15:38:40Z")

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Just in the early phases with a first forum, as an admin I added tags to some of the older topics and my impression is that as a result those topics appeared at the top of the list of topics for users checking in, above the new topic.  
Is there a way to avoid that happening.. to tag topics without affecting where they appear in the list of topics seen by users?  
Thanks

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473/2 "2018-12-04T16:05:55Z")

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You can reset the bump date when editing any single-post topic:

> [@Reply without bumping topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-without-bumping-topic/94406):
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> As a staff member you sometimes have the need to post a reply without bumping the topic to the top of the list. And now you can do exactly that. There’s a new “Toggle topic bump” in the composer’s reply selector. [image] An anchor will appear at the top of the composer when bumping is disabled. [image] Another new feature is the “Reset Bump Date” action in topic wrench menu. It changes the topic’s bump date to the date of the last visible post in the topic. That’s quite useful when the l…

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/7/a7a8a089fc6fedb8c9ba0b915730a970925fe4da.png)

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### Author: ![sronan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sronan/32/101105_2.png) [@sronan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sronan)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473/3 "2018-12-04T16:59:51Z")

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Thanks. In my case these were indeed single-post topics, so that solved the problem there. Is there any recommendation in respect to multi-posts topics, which I’d expect to be an issue in the future, with all the tagging done to topics by staff?

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473/4 "2018-12-04T17:05:27Z")

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Topics are bumped when the last post in a topic is edited, for single post topics this includes tagging. It won’t occur when tagging topics which have replies.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-topics-without-affecting-topic-placement/103473/5 "2019-01-03T17:11:42Z")

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