# What does editing a topic title trigger?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852 "2021-12-11T23:33:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/craigconstantine/32/511195_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852/1 "2021-12-11T23:33:34Z")

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…does it advance the bump date?  
…does it send notifications about the topic?

I’m wondering about editing a bunch of older topic titles to clean up around my site. But I do _not_ want my editing of the title to change any bump dates, nor send any notifications.

(I’m aware there’s a “reset bump date” option… I don’t want to have to hit that too a zillion times… hoping I can just edit without it having any effects.)

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**Author:** ![Kartoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@Kartoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kartoon)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852/2 "2021-12-12T10:09:36Z")

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It definitely changes the bump date unless you’re within whatever the short-editing window when you first make it is (obviously in your case you wouldn’t be). I’m not certain what notification you’re referring to, if you mean to whoever made the topic then no it doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852/3 "2021-12-12T10:17:21Z")

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> [@Kartoon](#):
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> I’m not certain what notification you’re referring to, if you mean to whoever made the topic then no it doesn’t.

If I change a topic title of another user, that user gets an edit notification.

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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/craigconstantine/32/511195_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852/4 "2021-12-12T11:56:41Z")

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> [@Kartoon](#):
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> I’m not certain what notification you’re referring to,

people watching, or tracking the topic; and people watching-first-post in the category . . .

But your point about the bump date tells me that I have to remember to reset-bump-date if I want to edit titles on the down low 🙂 Thanks.

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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 11, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-editing-a-topic-title-trigger/211852/5 "2022-01-11T11:57:21Z")

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