A few months back my Patreon account was suspended, and a few months before that, my MEGA account was suspended. After awhile of inactivity, I’m slowly going back to old posts with dead links and replacing them. I’m not doing this to increase my visibility, and in fact I would choose not to have these old posts bumped upon editing if I could.
What’s more confusing is that I thought there was some cutoff (around 2 or 3 months) where posts older than that wouldn’t get bumped with editing anymore. However, on editing multiple posts of a variety of different ages, the results have been very inconsistent. I just edited a post from 9 months ago that got bumped to the top, yet a paid script that I edited to be free which was under three months old did not get bumped and I had to leave a comment to bump it.
Afaik, if the post has at least one comment, it doesn’t get bumped, if you edit the post. If the post has zero comments and you edit it, it gets bumped.
You are welcome.
Imho this kind of system is pretty annoying. You are always afraid of editing old posts, because you don’t want to accidently bump that post. If there is an option in Discourse to disable this bumping thing, that would be the best. This system can also be easily abused.
Agreed. I don’t really understand the thinking behind the current system, and some option to disable bumping on editing on old post would be really nice.
