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Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hotness"!
Some of you may have noticed that we've been making some changes to the Hot Network Questions on the back end over the last week or so. I'm here announcing our first round of changes to how the HNQ ...
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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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Don't let questions stick to the top of the hot questions list forever [duplicate]
I've noticed that some very highly upvoted questions stay in the list of hot questions (also displayed in the Stack Exchange menu on the top left) for a very long time, often for several days. One ...
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Now you can know if a question really hit the HNQ
I noticed this new addition. It is now stated in the revision history if a question has made it to the Hot Network Questions, example:
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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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The Anatomy of a Hot Question
Here is the traffic since The Workplace was created:
These are the three questions that caused those huge spikes in traffic:
Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your ...
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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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Please open the Hot Network Questions to auditing via the Data Explorer
One of the contentious issues on today's Stack Exchange is the Hot Network Questions sidebar, which can drive a lot of traffic to junk-food questions that can be very poor fits to the sites that host ...
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Prevent specific sites from being overrepresented in the hot questions list [duplicate]
Some sites appear far more often in the hot questions list than other sites. I don't have any hard data on that, as that kind of data is just not publicly available, but I'm pretty sure my subjective ...
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Which sites appear most often in the Hot Network Questions list?
Is there any data about which Stack Exchange sites have their questions end up in the Hot Network Questions list the most? In particular:
What percentage of hot network questions comes from each site?...
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Reorder questions picked for hot list based on adjusted hotness score (discard some answers by voting evidence)
Executive Summary
The 100 questions are selected for the "Hot Network Questions" list displayed in the sidebar of each site. These questions are designed to showcase other sites in the Stack ...
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What changed in the Hot Questions sidebar algorithm?
I've recently noticed that the hot questions list is now different almost every time I look at it. It used to be static - I.e. I could browse around for half an hour and the items on it would be ...
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Extend the new Hot Questions sidebar
I really like the new sidebar. With the new top bar eliminating the "Hot Questions" area there, I think this is the perfect place for it. One-click access to time-wasting questions about ...
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How can I get a HOT network questions week digest?
I spend most of my Stack Exchange time in Stack Overflow, where I try to be productive. But there's this little side section with hot questions goodies from all the communities, like so, tempting me ...
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Require reputation earned on the main site to vote on a per-site meta
Upvoting requires 15 reputation, but the association bonus is taken into account, so if you have at least 200 reputation on any site, you can upvote on all sites in the network.
This is a bit ...
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robots.txt was changed to block saving hot questions page in Wayback Machine, why?
Until yesterday it was possible to save hot questions page in Wayback Machine as discussed eg here.
Today robots.txt appears to be changed to block this.
I wonder what could be reasons for such a ...
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Can an old question ever resurge as a 'Hot Network Question'? [duplicate]
By 'old', I mean questions older than 6 months.
If so, does anyone know the correlation between age of the question and Resurging?
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Does SE record a question's hotness?
I've read about how hot questions are calculated, and it appears to be a constantly changing number, since it deals with time since recent activity. But is this hotness rating ever recorded anywhere ...
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Ease up on the Hot Network Question Randomness
Whenever I refresh Stack Exchange sites or go to a question, the Hot Network Question list items are re-listed or re-ordered, quite dramatically it seems. This seems like a new thing.
It's actually ...
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Are the questions with TeX markup in titles excluded from Hot Network Questions?
Over the years, users of non-MathJax-enabled sites complained about unparsed TeX markup in the titles of Hot Network Questions coming from Mathematics and other MathJax-enabled sites. For example:
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Request for hot question vote statistics
Elsequestion it was said:
Guess what: if your site is full of crappy questions, your site sucks - even if they're not highly-ranked by your own users, folks are finding them via Google, and that's ...
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Reasoning behind changing the main portal's homepage and focus
https://stackexchange.com/ went through a major change somewhere between June 11th and June 12th according to the Wayback Machine.
This is how it looked like before, with focus on the sites/...
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History of Hot Questions
Is there a historical list of all questions that have ever been to the Hot Questions list? For the purpose of exploring the most interesting questions (by HQ algo's opinion).
Regarding linked ...
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How is the effectiveness of HNQs measured?
We're being asked to give feedback on what should be done with the Hot Network Questions list that's shown on the right-hand side of the screen. Ideas range from elaborate—relying on communities ...
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How can I check how many times a user has made the Hot Network Questions list?
During my time on SE, I've asked more than one question that hit the Hot Network Questions list (3 that I know of, each from a different SE site; same linked account). Other than analyzing the number ...
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Is there any way to find questions that have been hot for a long time?
I have noticed that the following question has been among the hot questions of all SE sites during the last ten days. To me, this is an indication that this question should be really appealing (though ...
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Is there a way to know which SE sites have contributed the most to the Hot Questions list?
Is there a way to know which SE sites have contributed the most to the Hot Questions list in a given time or so?
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Badge Request: Hotshot (Ask a Hot Network Question)
I would like to suggest a silver bronze badge which would be awarded for having a question featured as a Hot Network Question.
Currently there is no way of tracking a user's Hot Network Questions. ...
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Make the hot questions list a bit more interesting by heavily promoting questions from related sites
A couple of days ago I was showing Politics to a friend, hoping to get her to participate on the site. At some point, she noticed the "hot questions" list and I couldn't help but notice that until she ...
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Does Stack Exchange Track Clicks to "Hot Network Questions"
I'd love to make or see a graph analysis of click-throughs from Stack Overflow to other community's questions. I expect to see attractors that SO types tend to fall into (e.g. RPGs).
Does Stack ...
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Can we get a Hot Network Questions newsletter?
I love SE's newsletters, and I love going through the hot network questions. There's always something interesting, if not fascinating being asked and answered.
Basically, there are newsletters for ...
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An HNQ that's 21 days old? [duplicate]
This question appears on the HNQ list right now (I've posted a screenshot here, with the quetion I mentioned, circled in yellow, in case you wanted to see it).
What surprised me was that the question ...
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Where can I see at what time a hot network question lost its "hot network question" status? [duplicate]
The question timeline indicates when a question becomes a hot network question but doesn't seem to indicate when it loses its "hot network question" status, unless a moderator manually ...
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