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> [Can we get more info in the “Interesting questions” tab?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92859/can-we-get-more-info-in-the-interesting-questions-tab) 
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When I see an old fossil get dug up, I'd like to know why. If it's Community that did it, well at least there's an explanation. If some user did it, I often have to trowl through the page to find some miniscule edit, or a comment to a bottom-feeding answer, and sometimes I can't see the bump at all. Seeing old questions get plopped back on the stack for no apparent reason is thoroughly annoying.

It seems like it would be a good idea to have a function that people can look at to instantly see what the last bump-worthy action was. A description beside/rollovered the bump time ("edited 2m ago", "answered 7m ago", "commented 33s ago") seems like the easiest idea; on the question page itself maybe putting something similar just under the title (just throwing out ideas here). Noting whether the bump was deleted (e.g. [Question is marked as active, but nothing changed, not bumped by Community](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/113603/)) would also be helpful to know.

While this would really help for old questions, it would theoretically help for any question, especially long ones.