Answering a question marks it as active, but are there any other actions that can do that (i.e. voting, commenting, flagging, reporting, etc)?
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See this FAQ post on Meta Stack Overflow: What can cause my question to be bumped?
The following will cause a question to be bumped:
- Addition of an answer
- Edit or retag of the question, or edit of an answer[...]
- Addition of a bounty (by anyone)
- Successful reopening (if the question was closed)
- The Community user will bump unanswered questions every hour. The number of unanswered questions bumped per hour depends on the site [...]
(The re-open bump is a fairly recent development, or rather an old one that was recently fixed.)
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Bounties don't bump. (or at least, mine didn't a few weeks ago on a months old question, so I edited it.) Apr 23, 2012 at 21:28
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1@LessPop_MoreFizz They do. (Example: this question; last activity date 1 second after a bounty was placed.) Maybe there are some special rules, but I'm not aware of any.– a catApr 23, 2012 at 21:39
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@LessPop_MoreFizz When in doubt, blame caching for things not looking like they've updated.– user3389Apr 24, 2012 at 5:54