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Stop bumping old imported posts with no-change edits

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Lately some old posts that were already old when imported from elsewhere have popped to the top of the active questions list. In one case, one of the answers was apparently deleted.

Two recent ones show activity on the main question. When examining the edit history, it shows the whole question changed, but without any actual changes. Here is an example screen shot looking at the edit history of the main question:

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The text looks the same, and the tags are the same. Nothing seems to have actually changed.

Let's please stop doing that. Artificially bumping questions is bad enough, but dredging up old imported questions is ever worse.

Maybe it's time to consider deleting all the old imported questions.


One of the major selling points of Codidact when considering moving here is that we didn't have to start from scratch and leave behind all of the content that we had put so much work into.

And now that we have some experience with new sites, this is broadly recognized as having been a mistake.

All those attribution links give the impression this site is just a copy at best, and invites people to go to the original source.

If these old imported damaging posts keep getting brought to the front, then we really should just delete them all.


Two more such posts showed up today. Once again, the question itself shows a recent edit time, but no change is apparent when looking at the edit history.

What is going on here?

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Charlie Brumbaugh‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Wait you think the system is bumping without changes? Because those were probably tag-only edits which are a change and do the bump the questions just like on SE.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

@Charlie: I thought they might be tag-only edits too, but note that the tags are identical in the example I show. You did the edit. Did you actually change something, or intend to? What exactly happened?