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36 questions linked to/from Prevent questions on the Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)
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Hot network questions causes inconsistent voting [duplicate]
On Security Stack Exchange, voting is heavily influenced by hot network questions. As a recent example, one of my answers which I consider to be mediocre at best is currently on +82. Contrast this to ...
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Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project! [closed]
In case you missed the first one, check out the se-quality-project tag. The quality project isn't one that we plan to ever finish, it's perennial and kicks in every 18 months or so after we've had ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns
Update
We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those status-completed tags on the different answers here!
The top suggestion was to do something about the badge ...
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What should we be looking to change and what is inviolable?
Updated note (with the original post still below the line)- Thank you, very much, for the time you've spent answering these questions. I learned a ton. In fact, as I've hinted below, I'd like to do ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list.
Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:
'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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The association bonus should not enable users to vote on every site
The number of upvotes for a question is a flawed measure of question quality, one particular issue is that the amount of exposure a question gets matters a lot. Questions that were linked in the hot ...
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How does a lurker gain reputation to receive privilege for commenting? [duplicate]
I have been reading Stack Exchange for years - mostly not logged in, and have never posted (this is my first). I'm simply not very talkative, and very good at googling.
Recently a few occasions have ...
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What is "People helped" and why does it exist at all?
I wonder what is "People helped" (PH) stat supposed to signify. From what I read in Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns, it stands for cumulative number of views on some (...
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Allow moderators or gold tag badge holders to prevent questions from being on the hot network questions (HNQ) list
Sometimes a question that is not representative of a site makes the HNQ list. This can lead to a large bump in traffic on a question the community may not be well equipped to handle. I propose that ...
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At smaller sites, penalize hot questions having 3-4 close votes
At smaller sites (up to 50-100 questions a day average) closing a question takes hours or even days.
As an example, this SO question has got 5 close votes in 15 minutes, while its twin at Software ...
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Breaking the HNQ feedback loop on bad questions
The Hot Network Questions sidebar is a bit of a contentious issue, because it tends to promote questions that are often perceived as 'cheap', of relatively low quality, or on the fringes of topicality ...
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Preventing the HNQ feedback-loop
We all know that the HNQ causes good- or okay-questions to be flooded with activity, especially if they have an abnormal or controversial title. There’s no need to get into the mess which kicked off ...
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Increase the Hot Network Questions randomness (proposal for testing)
Related: Ease up on the Hot Network Question Randomness.
This is a recent change which resulted in a 30% increase in engagement. All of this engagement came from repeated clicks... we do have ...
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Joining a Stack Exchange site for the single purpose of an upvote
I have read many questions asked in SEs I have not joined yet; the sidebar advertises new hot questions and the top questions of many SEs are worth reading.
Whenever I read an really awesome answer (...
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Show the vote split by default
Seeing a post voted +10 doesn't tell the full story. The votes could be split:
+10/-0, signaling a good post
+35/-25, signaling an awful post
Lots of downvotes on a positive-scoring post might ...
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