I think this is a bbPress bug, only if it’s a bug it’s been there for a while.

If a user creates a new topic in bbPress and subsequently edits it, a fresh item is created in the activity feed, also if email subscriptions are enables a fresh “New topic has been started” notification goes out.

I need to stop this from happening, is there a fix? Has this been raised as a bug?

[@atonyk Participant 8 years ago]

@venutius, I agree with that. It’s a headache for activity moderators. It would be great if the published activity was updated if the bbpress topic/reply is updated.

[@atonyk Participant 8 years ago]

It seems that the problem is fixed in the BBPress 2.6 beta-2 version.
There is the ticket – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690
I look forward to the release. 🙂