When a question gets into the "hot questions" list, it obviously starts getting many more views as many people are just browsing "hot questions" and viewing questions there. This results in a snowball effect that questions already in the list are getting many views just because of being in the list, and subsequently more up-votes compared to other questions, which keeps them in the list etc.
Is this issue somehow handled in the formula that determines what questions are included in the list? For example, does it differentiate between views coming from a link in the list and views from other pages?