I was exploring the topics here… and noticed that there were topics from 2015-2018 [image] Identify a Group's ID Support Hi, how can an admin identify a group’s ID number? https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auth-proxy/27703 :confused:

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.

@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 o…

We did it on Stack Exchange as well for the same reasons, and .. it works.

Why does the system randomly bump 3-6 year old topics?

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lcb (Lucas Collins-Breisand) June 6, 2021, 2:24am 2

I’ll go out on a limb and guess that it’s because of a feature called Automatically bumping old topics on a category.

Topic		Replies	Views
Why bump old topics automatically here on Meta? Site feedback	18	4074	October 7, 2019
Why are old topics closed? Site feedback auto-bump	23	414	July 23, 2024
Why are topics automatically bumped? Site feedback	2	748	October 29, 2022
Maximum age for auto-bumped topics? Feature auto-bump	3	906	February 28, 2021
Automatically bumping old topics on a category Announcements new-feature , auto-bump	71	11502	June 18, 2021

Why does the system randomly bump 3-6 year old topics?

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