Some changes to questions, such as edits or receiving new answers, will "bump" them back onto the site's front page where the changes can be vetted by other users.
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Why doesn't commenting bump questions?
According to the answer on this page, comments do not bump questions. Why is this? I understand that comments are generally considered to be secondary to answers, but they are often used for ...
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Random bump of a question? Is this a bug?
I saw a question this afternoon: minimizing the norm of a curl over a domain
Then I went on to cook up an answer. After I submitted, I was about to edit OP's question to make it better formatted. ...
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When does the Community bot bump posts, and how do I bump posts?
I apologize if this question is on a FAQ somewhere, but a cursory search turned up empty. I am trying to find out:
Under what conditions will the Community bot decide to bump my question onto the ...
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Accept no longer bumps?
It used to be the case that accepting an answer would bump the thread to the top (front page). Has this feature been removed? Last time I accepted a question it seems to have had no bumping effect.
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Re-asking a question
I asked Why $p$-adically interpolate? while I wasn't signed in - this unknown user is me. Although this is a pretty general question, and should probably be easy to answer by an expert in that field, ...
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user on an editing spree
One of us has edited over 50 old questions in the last 50 minutes, mostly just retagging them. Is there any way to stop this? [note --- I have flagged one of the questions for moderator attention, and ...
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Are bumps by community user shown/logged somewhere?
Community user bumps some old unanswered question from time to time. Is this activity shown somewhere?
Quite often it can happen that someone edits a post in order to improve it - since the questions ...
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Unable to bump question
I have a question that I think should be good enough but it's now buried far down the list. I have read that editing it, changing the tags etc. should bump it (and I understand that this should not be ...
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Resurrecting old questions?
I apologize if this has been discussed, but I didn't find any info on a quick search.
What is the proper etiquette when you see a user resurrect a dead question that has been thoroughly answered? Is ...
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Is there a way to “re-advertise” a question after a major edit?
A week ago, I asked a question on MathSE. It did not get any answers (I even won a tumbleweed badge because of it), so today I rewrote it completely, to make the problem more "accessible" (the ...
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Editing Binge Etiquette
What is the etiquette for extremely minor edits that bump dead threads by no longer active users? A related meta question.
Recently someone has been on a binge of such editing. Most of the edits are ...
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How much bumping is too much?
Quite often some old questions are bumped for various reasons.
They are edited to correct minor typos, punctuation, adding links, adding a more informative title etc.
They are retagged - e.g. for ...
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How do I “refresh” a question to return it to the top of the list?
After I make a substantial edit to a question, is there a way to "refresh" the question to make it appear at the top of the list in the list of Questions?
The problem is that if it remains at the ...
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Unnecesarily retagging old questions that get bumped.
Just as I write this, a user with $\sim$500 rep. has retagged 28 questions inactive by removing the tag differential-equations to leave only the tag pde. This has crowded the main page with already ...
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Old Questions Unlikely To Have An Accepted Answer
A routine question with answers, but no accepted answer, gets bumped by the Community bot. Checking the OP's page reveals that the user is likely gone for good.
Barring intervention from the OP, will ...
