Timeline for Rename Hot Network Questions 'Watching the Pretty Flames'
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| Oct 23, 2018 at 8:02 | comment | added | gnat | @JeffAtwood they had it coming | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 23:04 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @gnat "Which kind of suggests that those willing to change anything about HNQ need to figure a way to make SE unhappy about how these work" that's called negative publicity on social media, my friend | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 16:53 | comment | added | gnat | @ChristianRau maybe it's not the first time. If memory serves, another earlier change (randomized shuffling) was introduced after someone popular laughed in Twitter at Atwood because of some bland PHP question that managed to stuck at the top of the HNQ list for about a week :) | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 16:40 | comment | added | Christian Rau | @gnat So far the only proposal that effected any kind of change, so that's something to work with, I guess. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 16:24 | comment | added | gnat | recently proposed idea: "Sites are excluded only after a twitter demand, from someone with at least 1k followers." | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 8:10 | comment | added | gnat | @hichris123 the reason why these proposals are ignored seems to be that Stack Exchange is happy about how HNQ questions work now. As far as I know they don't want to change anything about this, I think Shog mentioned this in deleted comments under this comment at MSO. Which kind of suggests that those willing to change anything about HNQ need to figure a way to make SE unhappy about how these work... | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 22:39 | comment | added | hichris123 | A couple (recent) proposals that haven't seen much team feedback: Did the algorithm for Hot Network Questions change recently?, Age hot questions faster, and Impose strict time-limit for questions on Hot Network Questions list. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 8:21 | comment | added | gnat | I have an idea, have you heard it? Increase the Hot Network Questions randomness (proposal for testing) "The more people watch (and occasionally answer / upvote) questions in the list, the more static, sticky and boring it becomes, due to, again, snowball / self-fulfilling prophecy effects that prevent other questions from being exposed..." | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @hobbs I'd think so... were it not for the [feature-request] tag and the utter lack of any sort of proposals for a change. What exactly is the discussion point? I just see a few statements of alleged fact. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 7:02 | comment | added | hobbs | That's what the discussion tag was for, don't you think? :) | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 4:51 | history | answered | Adam LearStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |