# Why does the system randomly bump 3-6 year old topics?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 6, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812 "2021-06-06T02:05:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Cookie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cookie)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/1 "2021-06-06T02:05:25Z")
I was exploring the topics here… and noticed that there were topics from 2015-2018
> [@Identify a Group's ID](https://meta.discourse.org/t/identify-a-groups-id/98136):
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> Hi, how can an admin identify a group’s ID number?
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auth-proxy/27703](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auth-proxy/27703)
😕
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### Author:  [@lcb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lcb)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/2 "2021-06-06T02:24:36Z")
I’ll go out on a limb and guess that it’s because of a feature called [Automatically bumping old topics on a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-bumping-old-topics-on-a-category/92518).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/3 "2021-06-06T21:19:35Z")
It’s a good hint to clean up old topics as well. We also did this on Stack Overflow, to get some natural gardening, to give old discussions a bit of new attention, or to prune (delete) them.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/4 "2021-12-26T11:27:36Z")
@codinghorror basically you are waking up really olddated topics and because of age potentially problematic tips/discussions and showing them to thousands of users and Google just because you (meaning the site, not you-you) are hoping some stuff member will notice old content and clean them?
Am I onlyone who thinks that is really bad tactic? Even here too.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/5 "2021-12-26T19:01:55Z")
We did it on Stack Exchange as well for the same reasons, and .. it works.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-system-randomly-bump-3-6-year-old-topics/192812/6 "2022-01-25T19:02:15Z")
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