What does “Bumping Topics” do? [image]

The system automatically posts in a topic, which brings it up to the top of the “latest” list. It can be useful for re-surfacing old topics which have not been “solved” yet.

Don’t want to split hairs, but since the question was apparently about “bumping topics” more generally, it’s worth mentioning that the term refers to bringing topics back to the top of latest topics regardless of whether this is done by the system or a human. tl;dr bumping = resurfacing older topic…

What causes the system to bump a topic?

There is a category setting. See Automatically bumping old topics on a category

Hi there, on https://community.hiveeyes.org/ , we would like to occasionally bump a specific topic manually (this time, it is Annapurna firmware images for Pycom/ESP32 - Firmwareschmiede / firmware development - Hiveeyes ). Has this feature already been discussed? We would suggest to put an option n…

Setting a topic timer should do that for you.

Or you could just post a message if it is to “occasionally” bump a “specific” topic “manually”, couldn’t you ?

Dear Jeff, [Bild] codinghorror: Setting a topic timer should do that for you. Thanks for suggesting that, it worked! [image] With kind regards, Andreas. P.S.: Nevertheless, having this available via a single button-press like “Bump now” ;] would be nice. However, as it works this way, it…

You can also make a post and then delete it, for what is colloquially known as the “ghost bump”. Happens with spam, for example, if the spam makes it through our preliminary checks and Akismet… which is thankfully rare!

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HAWK (Hawk) 12. September 2019 um 01:50 5

Es gibt eine Kategorieeinstellung. Siehe Automatically bumping old topics on a category

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