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Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change?

For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last activity marked as today, but there are no new comments, edits or answers.

Why does this happen?

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Community digs them up once in a while, it is a system process that brings two old, unanswered questions to the front page every hour.

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@studiohack, thanks for the answer! – freethinker May 22 '11 at 3:36
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[citation-required] on "... two ..." – Sathya♦ May 22 '11 at 8:20
You can just eyeball the questions list to see two per hour kicked up again. Citation by observation. @sat – random♦ May 22 '11 at 15:56
that's right @Sathya, @random is correct. I remember observing it, and reading about it somewhere, but I don't think I can find it again. – studiohack♦ May 23 '11 at 0:04
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ok fair enough Studio & @random – Sathya♦ May 23 '11 at 1:43
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What? Why, here you go: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48578/… – random♦ May 23 '11 at 3:41

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