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Why the downvote BTW? –  Pascal Thivent Oct 19 '09 at 19:26
@Pascal Thivent - Most likely someone is not in favor of implementing your suggestion. That's all. It's nothing personal, meta-ly speaking. –  Robert Cartaino Oct 19 '09 at 19:29
@Robert Ok, thanks –  Pascal Thivent Oct 19 '09 at 19:30
The downvotes are a way to subtle discourage users from suggesting features. Just kidding... sorta. –  kanamekun Oct 19 '09 at 19:56
@kanamekun well, that's actually almost the case... –  Pascal Thivent Oct 19 '09 at 20:03
I don't know if I should accept any answer here. If yes, on which criteria. This is very confusing actually, I don't like how this works. –  Pascal Thivent Oct 26 '09 at 22:10
@PascalThivent: I somewhat think it's pointless having Accept buttons on Meta sites. –  Tshepang Jan 10 '12 at 9:52
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There are several points to think about, here.

The edit bumps questions to front page feature has these goals:



For example, in the last some days I edited all questions with "question" in the title on After about 6 such edits I got a comment request to slow down ... since my edited questions came faster than new ones. I then changed to a "one per hour" rhythm (on average).





  • is not malicious


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How about the following?















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No, the bumping behavior is explicitly by design so you can get attention on older posts by making simple edits.

Also, adding more complexity for a non-existent problem is something the SO development team is not going to do.

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I'm not against the bumping, I just find nice to be able to decide to not bump. And BTW, are you a SO developer? –  Pascal Thivent Oct 19 '09 at 19:29
I agree that it shouldn't be implemented, but I disagree that the SO team hasn't made things more complex for no reason before. –  GEOCHET Oct 19 '09 at 19:34
@Rich B - very good point... –  John Rasch Oct 19 '09 at 19:48
@Pascal - no, but I've seen a response of "we won't modify the database" and "no reason to add more complexity" from Jeff more than once - and you'd have to do both in order to implement this –  John Rasch Oct 19 '09 at 19:51
@John Wrong, no model modification is required, it's just a matter of updating a timestamp or not. And if you consider that any feature add complexity, then stop doing anything, it adds complexity! Seriously, please let someone really involved take such a position. Thanks. –  Pascal Thivent Oct 19 '09 at 19:58
@Pascal - huh? Edits are stored in a revision table, each one with a timestamp. You would definitely need a bit flag in there that indicates whether or not it appears on the active tab for that particular edit. As for new features, they will add them if the benefits outweigh the costs; I don't have to be an SO developer to realize that. I've been around long enough to guarantee you that this will never be implemented because they'll have to spend several man-hours adding something that prevents month old posts from bumping because you change "teh" to "the"? Who cares? –  John Rasch Oct 20 '09 at 0:07
@John Ok, you might be right. But maybe the model is denormalized and "entries" are shown on the home page, not "revisions". And maybe "entries" have another timestamp than "revisions". Actually, I don't know and I don't care. Then, you're not famous, you aren't a SO developer, so I don't care either about you being around long enough to guarantee anything. I would like to hear the point of view of people involved, not people who think they are important and omniscient. Finally, you don't like this improvement? Well, as you said, who cares? –  Pascal Thivent Oct 20 '09 at 9:37
@Pascal - whether it's an improvement or not, you're probably not going to hear the point of view from the "people involved" because currently the majority who have voted are against this feature. If you want their opinion directly you can send them an email at The best you're going to get here is people that have witnessed similar feature requests and similar responses from said "people involved", which are summarized in my response. I don't know what more you want than that. You can of course wait indefinitely for a direct answer from Jeff, but probably won't get one. –  John Rasch Oct 20 '09 at 16:02
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