# Why are old topics closed?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-old-topics-closed/317656>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** auto-bump\
**Created:** [July 22, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-old-topics-closed/317656 "2024-07-22T13:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-old-topics-closed/317656/21 "2024-07-23T10:31:22Z")

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I think sending a list with topics which would have been bumped to an inbox is a good idea. Auto-bump can be very helpful if the whole community can help. But most bumped topics here need someone to mark a post as solution and/or close the topic. Sometimes a community member can add a link to a feature, but someone else still has to close it. If those topics were a few weeks old and did not receive an answer, everyone could help answering them. But answering support questions from 4 years ago doesn’t seem that helpful; I don’t think the person asking is still waiting for an answer.

It could be interesting to bump old feature topics since topic voting was enabled after they were published. But those would probably have to be tidied up first.

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