Questions tagged [bumping]
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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Feature request: Edit without bumping question. [duplicate]
I frequently use MSE to ask math questions. However, I'm not a native English speaker, and a lot of times I make minor grammar or spelling mistakes in my posts. Additionally, on occasion, I might ...
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Modifications don't show up on the timeline.
This happens frequently, both on the main site and on meta: An old question pops back up on the front page, I open it, the text under the title says "Modified today", but when I check the ...
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Let's downvote our sandbox to prevent edits from bumping it
Our sandbox (with a permanent vote score of 124) is perpetually hogging attention near or at the top of our Meta homepage.
In contrast, Physics StackExchange's sandbox's activities rightly occur under ...
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Should I fix trivial typos in my old posts? [duplicate]
I thought this definitely would have been asked before, but I searched and couldn't find it.
I was looking at one of my questions I asked a while ago and I realised a very minor typo in it. Actually, ...
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Standards of editing [duplicate]
A question posted to math.s.e. said
$$
X ~ \operatorname{Poi}(\lambda)
$$
and that was coded as X ~ \operatorname{Poi}(\lambda).
It is obvious that the poster ...
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Feature suggestion: marking an edit as minor to avoid messing with the question flow
I won't be surprised if it has already been discussed, but anyway.
I relatively often make minor edits to my own answers: typically a typo in math or in English, or a slight modification of the logic ...
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Why do questions asked a long time ago, even those whose answers are already accepted, get shown again?
For example this one:
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Editing the title/body of a question hours after asking?
I asked a question which received some comments immediately. Only after the comments came in did I realize that I should ask my question differently. I edited the question then.
I now realize that the ...
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How to bump someone else's old, unanswered question that's exactly the question I want to ask?
On the main site, there's an old, unanswered question that's exactly the same question I'd like to ask. Is there some way to bump it?
And what would meta be without a meta-conversation: I've read ...
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Should a new answer bring the problem to the top?
A question I have answered some half an hour ago (Proving that all numbers are rational) stays deep below the fold and doesn't pop up to the top of the question list. Is there any explanation to this? ...
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Is there a way to edit without bumping the question?
I'm a kind of person who like to see no flaw in the answers I posted here (I'm sure many of us mathematicians here share the same value as me to a certain extent). For that reason, I usually double ...
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Is it bad to edit your own answer several times?
I often need to edit my answers several times to fix errors or maybe to answer more directly the questions asked.
But each time I edit my answer, the post will get a bit higher in the top questions ...
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Why so many Riesz Representation questions in such short time?
I was scrolling through MSE on the cell phone earlier today and these popped up:
and the list went on. Is this an artifact of the search engine, or is there some reason for the sudden "interest" in ...
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Could having (tag-removed) tag be useful?
Quite often we have situation that discussion about a specific tag results in consensus that the tag should be removed. And the removal process means that the questions having that tag are retagged ...
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Bumping new questions to format, highlight or update context
I tried to search past questions, to see if this was asked, and found one (of a similar nature) that does not address my problem here. Now we proceed with the question itself:
Is it okay to bump a ...
