Continuing on with this previous meta post, what is actually going on?

The previous post was initially about the policy of bumping old posts to the top of the active list. However, that brought up some questions about what exactly was actually happening. Unfortunately, those involved just ignored any additional requests for clarification. This meta post is therefore explicitly to find out what is actually happening.

This issue was brought up again by the latest bump of an old question, https://outdoors.codidact.com/questions/59255. Once again, we see recent activity, but no actual changes when examining the edit history:

As far as I can tell, the before and after text is the same.

The only positive-scoring answer to the previous question said that it should be OK to clean up old content, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening. So what is happening?

Here we are 3 weeks later with still no answer, and two more such posts just appeared today. Once again, the question list shows the last activity was by Charlie Brumbaugh‭, who is a moderator here. As such, he owes us an answer to the straight forward question of what is going on.

6 Jan 2021: Another one just happened: https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/59371. The question list shows " last activity about 17 hours ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭", but neither the question nor any of the answers show recent activity. All activity show pre-dates the creation of this site. That implies the question was copied from SE as it is now.

Charlie, what, if anything, did you do to this question to cause it to be bumped like this?

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Olin Lathrop‭

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