Timeline for What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
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| Dec 8, 2014 at 10:09 | comment | added | TRiG | @Dilaton. It is elitist. Of course, the philosophy on SE is that elitism is good. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 6:54 | history | bounty ended | gnat | ||
| Feb 19, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | user213963 | @vzn For #2, a start at the stats behind it can be seen in Request for hot question vote statistics. About 1/3 to 1/2 of the votes on the question come from people who are association bonus only. Though, thats a start and a glance into the information. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:04 | comment | added | vzn | @Dilaton look there seems to be a lot of misconception on this issue... (1) the hot questions become hot by the local community upvoting them, and then (2) they bring in casual users once added on the hot list. it is not known how much casual users affect the voting on the question after that! there is another se-wide issue of local communities' users (incl mods) having very high clout & being able to kill questions via closing or whatever and overriding the popular vote on questions, some very high rated, and agreed the hot question list might amplify that preexisting issue... | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 23:09 | comment | added | Dilaton | @vzn it is natural for people who have a deep knowledge about the topic of a site (usually to be found among the local contributors to the site) to have a more valid opinion than the more curious than knowledgeable broad mass of kibitzers from the outside who are looking for fun and entertainment as Shog9 says. There is nothing "elitist" about this. Of course this is only relevant for sites who's single purpose is not just fun and entertainment by definition ... | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 0:15 | comment | added | vzn | "The hot questions list becomes problematic when it identifies questions that are popular, but are not really of a high quality." this is an elitist attitude that some ppl think they have a more valid opinion than the mass votes on questions. its like the senate overruling the house via vetoes or maybe the president overriding the senate via a veto. (and all this really has nothing to do with the hot question mechanism but instead basic se built-in voting mechanisms.) can someone compile such a list? one could point to the same list and say its evidence of small cliques unilaterally overruling | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 15:09 | comment | added | gnat | this looks a fairly strong point: "The questions should have popular appeal, but they should still be something even experts are not embarrassed to have as a showcase for their site." Per my experience, this is a tricky balance | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 12:24 | history | answered | Mad Scientist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |