The real question in my mind is whether there's a point to rating questions at all.

Obviously the purpose of rating answers is to find the best one for a given question. The value of having a list of the "best questions" is much more dubious, especially given the issues people have noticed with voting on questions.

Someone looking for an answer to their question is going to find the right question using search, whether internal or external. People who want to keep up with new questions on Stack Overflow I think are going to be much more interested in sub-communities within the site, whether via monitoring specific tags or some other mechanism, than tracking some kind of reddit-like hot questions page.

Question threads should be displayed to users based on relevance rather than popularity.

The real question in my mind is whether there's a point to rating questions at all.

Obviously the purpose of rating answers is to find the best one for a given question. The value of having a list of the "best questions" is much more dubious, especially given the issues people have noticed with voting on questions.

Someone looking for an answer to their question is going to find the right question using search, whether internal or external. People who want to keep up with new questions on Stack Overflow I think are going to be much more interested in sub-communities within the site, whether via monitoring specific tags or some other mechanism, than tracking some kind of reddit-like hot questions page.

Question threads should be displayed to users based on relevance rather than popularity.

The real question in my mind is whether there's a point to rating questions at all.

Obviously the purpose of rating answers is to find the best one for a given question. The value of having a list of the "best questions" is much more dubious, especially given the issues people have noticed with voting on questions.

Someone looking for an answer to their question is going to find the right question using search, whether internal or external. People who want to keep up with new questions on Stack Overflow I think are going to be much more interested in sub-communities within the site, whether via monitoring specific tags or some other mechanism, than tracking some kind of reddit-like hot questions page.

Question threads should be displayed to users based on relevance rather than popularity.

The real question in my mind is whether there's a point to rating questions at all.

Obviously the purpose of rating answers is to find the best one for a given question. The value of having a list of the "best questions" is much more dubious, especially given the issues people have noticed with voting on questions.

Someone looking for an answer to their question is going to find the right question using search, whether internal or external. People who want to keep up with new questions on Stack Overflow I think are going to be much more interested in sub-communities within the site, whether via monitoring specific tags or some other mechanism, than tracking some kind of reddit-like hot questions page.

Question threads should be displayed to users based on relevance rather than popularity.