Regularly half or more of the questions on the ServerFault front-page seem to be there only because they were bumped by the [Community bot](https://serverfault.com/users/-1/community). 

It's self claimed configuration is among others:

> Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention

IMHO it currently achieves more or less the opposite though.  
It draws away attention from new questions.  
Those [new questions need answering much more](https://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/303570/answer-rate-over-time#graph) than old ones (from users that are not contributing anymore, if they ever did at all,  and/or problems/topics/technology that have expired). 

# Can that bump frequency be reduced?



For some time now there appears precedence and support for that in the back-end according to meta.stackexchange.com:


https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/350958

## Stop the front page from looking like this:

[![screenshot of the front page ][1]][1]


It's been asked before but maybe then the back-end functionality wasn't there yet. 

- https://meta.serverfault.com/q/9691/984089  


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/gcQ9B.png