What makes these questions classified in any of these categories?
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1Here's Hot and Featured. Interesting is based on your history and tags you've favorited/ignored– Some Helpful CommenterJun 12, 2012 at 22:20
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You can hover your mouse over the tabs and it will give you a brief, one sentence summary for each.
Here's a listing of tabs groupings and their summaries,
interesting: questions that may be of interest to you based on your history and tag preferences
featured: questions with an open bounty
hot: questions with the most views, answers, and votes over the last few days
week: questions with the most views, answers, and votes this week
month: questions with the most views, answers and votes this month
newest: the most recently asked questions
faq: questions with the most links
votes: questions with the most votes
active: questions that have recent activity
unanswered: questions that have no upvoted answers
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4"questions with the most links" is not clear to me. The most links to the question from other SE questions? The most external links pointing to the question?– AaronJun 14, 2012 at 17:56
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I'm also curious as to what exactly "questions with the most links" means. Can anyone clarify this? Aug 19, 2012 at 11:51
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@Alex "hot: questions with the most views, answers, and votes over the last few days". How may days?– GeekJan 12, 2014 at 13:15
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@Geek I don't think a specific time frame is specified (please correct me if I'm wrong). Jan 12, 2014 at 22:07
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Jeff Atwood explains the formula used to determine "hotness" of questions in his answer to: How are questions in the 'hot' tab on a site selected?– V2BlastFeb 28, 2023 at 1:24