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| Jun 19, 2019 at 12:47 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 10:00 | comment | added | gnat | ...on further thought, one can argue that maintaining variance of topics indirectly serves a goal of keeping hot questions reliably interesting: system tries to attract more eyeballs by promoting topics that may be missed without some "boost". Somewhat simplified scenario of what would happen if it didn't do this would be that hot list would be occupied by questions from, say, only SO and Code Golf and people would get used to that and it would get ignored by those who aren't much interested in these sites which would in turn mean narrowing the audience and less clicks. @Bob | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | gnat | ...In that sense I merely point that their old implementation currently has trouble maintaining the intended balance (it probably worked well enough in the past, when there were only 30-40 sites in the network) | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | gnat | @Bob as far as I can tell it's a matter of balance. HNQ design seems to have two different and somewhat conflicting goals, first is one you mentioned, ie to promote interesting stuff and second is to maintain variance in topics / sites. You can see it yourself: the very purpose of parameter mentioned in my answer is to maintain the second goal even though it goes at some expence of the first one (they decrease "hotness score" for succeeding questions from the same site)... | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 7:41 | comment | added | Bob | Part of the problem isn't simply exposure on the list, but how interesting the questions are to the majority of network users. Especially the language ones for much the same reason the language-specific SOs were removed from HNQ: most English-speaking users can't even read the question. I suspect the religion-related ones appear near the bottom of your list for a similar reason. No matter how often you get them to appear, they likely won't attract many clicks. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 4:58 | comment | added | gnat | @Narusan I am rather strongly opposed to hand picking because it would have to be done permanently and looks difficult to scale when more sites will join the network. However the great thing about your idea is, it can be easily automated. Specifically, system can change to account for amount of clicks mentioned in my answer and dynamically boost "hotness score" for questions from sites that get too few, thus increasing their chances to get into the list | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 21:15 | comment | added | Narusan | How about 10 handselected „promotion“ posts from unknown sites? Implementation might be difficult... | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 16:40 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | gnat | @heather that's correct. Consider giving a read to link referred in my prior comment, it discusses exactly this kind of issues, "don't expect it to work in your favor..." etc | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | auden | On the other hand...there is a long standing dislike of HNQs because they tend to be some of the worse highly upvoted questions. E.g., on Quantum Computing "Is quantum computing pie in the sky?" became an HNQ. | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 13:36 | comment | added | gnat | @JuanM with regards to making HNQ benefit involved sites, you might be additionally interested in this discussion at CB.SE: How can I get people to join a site and not simply glance and pass it by? "Hot questions attract multiple random visitors, hundreds or even thousands of them... and if you want to leverage this "firehose of publicity", you better set your goals firm and straight..." | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 12:21 | comment | added | Juan M Staff | This is a very insightful answer. I will follow up with this as I agree that network-wide exposure to each community is vital in growing user participation and awareness of other sites. | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 7:40 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2018 at 6:10 | comment | added | gnat | somewhat related feature request: Prevent specific sites from being overrepresented in the hot questions list | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 6:10 | history | answered | gnat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |