Questions tagged [hot-questions]
Hot Network Questions in the right-hand sidebar, the “hot” tab on each site, and on stackexchange.com.
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What are the criteria for questions to be selected for Hot Network Questions?
I really like the new Stack Exchange home page, where certain questions from the Stack Exchange Network are presented, along with a hotness rating that is described as "arbitrary" in its ...
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What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, ...
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Filter "Hot Network Questions" by excluding sites
I was going to make a filter for the "Hot Network Questions" by excluding some sites from it. I noticed this answer which talks about "negative filtering" but does not explain how ...
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How are questions in the 'hot' tab on a site selected?
I know questions on the "hot" tab of a site homepage are based on some sort of views/velocity criteria, but does anyone know the actual algorithm used?
Background: I was considering a feature-request ...
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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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Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature, what are our shared goals for having it?
Thanks for your input here and elsewhere on Meta.
Please see the results of this discussion on the update post:
Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less &...
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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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Filtering "hot" questions [duplicate]
Is there a way to filter the "hot questions" displayed in the Stack Exchange menu?
I have a profile on Stack Overflow and that's pretty much it. Therefore the list as it is now is pretty ...
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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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Prevent questions on the Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)
I have experienced this on a couple of sites (and I'm not the only one):
You look through the question list. You see a pretty bad (or at least not-so-good) question heavily upvoted.
Or even worse, a ...
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In “network hot” questions formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points
TL;DR When votes of 20... 30... 100 users clearly indicate that only one or two answers are popular, it does not make sense to pretend that other answers are popular too.
In current version of “...
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Exclude TeX.SE question titles from MathJax parsing in Hot Network Questions
Recently, the TeX.SE question "\[\mu\] is printing the Greek letter mu on a separate single line" got onto the Hot Network Questions list.
Like many questions on TeX.SE, it contains some TeX markup ...
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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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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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Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants" [closed]
On Stack Overflow at the moment, there is a popular question which is currently high in the Hot Questions feed: https://stackoverflow.com/q/17807531/42473
So far it has been closed twice (once by the ...
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How to avoid "Hot Network Questions" on the sidebar
This may sound like a 'first world problem', but I am quite easily distracted by the 'Hot Network Questions' sidebar, as I find them quite amusing and some of them quite intellectual
But where the ...
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Add an audit log to record when particular question enters and leaves hot list [duplicate]
The Hot Network Questions page displays a constantly changing list of 100 questions, since it deals with time since recent activity.
But are changes in this list ever recorded anywhere for posterity (...
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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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Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network
Recently, it was announced that the "Hot on Meta" questions would no longer show up on the SO sidebar. Sara Chipps elaborated a little bit on why:
Stack Overflow Employees have panic ...
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Make hot questions with multiple answers age away faster on smaller / subjective-ish sites [duplicate]
Due to extended exposure to wide SE network, hot questions tend to attract certain amount of low quality answers 1 2 3. These answers would better be (and eventually are) removed, but on smaller / ...
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Which sites are excluded or limited from Hot Network Questions?
I was curious but couldn't find any definitive listing on this. Is there an official list of sites excluded from Hot Network Questions somewhere?
Additionally, which sites are penalized from Hot ...
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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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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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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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Prevent questions with movie/tv shows/game spoilers from appearing in the hot questions list
I've noticed that occasionally "hot questions" from SciFi and the Movies & TV network contain major spoilers about the movie/show discussed.
The Matrix spoilers:
I like browsing through those ...
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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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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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Hot Questions, inability to filter sites... and now German questions? Too much "noise"!
We used to have the ability to filter Stack Exchange wide stories. I was sad to see the ability go away. I'll admit it isn't the end of the world. I do like seeing questions on occasion that I ...
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Questions from ru.SO shouldn't become hot
Apparently, the localized sites, such as pt.SO and ja.SO are exluded from the Hot Network Questions list. But recently launched ru.SO doesn't have its questions exluded from it:
Plzfix?
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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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How to determine if a question has ever been a "hot network question"?
I've had at least one question featured as a "hot network question" and during that time it got thousands of views in the course of a few days. But if you look at that question now you won't have any ...
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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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Can you filter out certain SE sites from the hot questions list? [duplicate]
Is it possible to filter out Stack Exchange sites from the hot questions list?
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Incorrect icons on hot network questions
I see the same problem has occurred in the past, the most-linked one being Wrong icons in the "hot network questions" column
Is this happening for anyone else?
I've marked the icons I ...
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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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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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Should trending questions be auto-protected? [duplicate]
I noticed today that a request for protection came up due to the the large number of me-too answers on a trending question I answered recently. This got me thinking, since trending questions get far ...
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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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How can I add Hot Network Questions (HNQ) to a chat room feed?
I would like to MYOH (Make Your Own HNQ) by posting hot network questions (HNQ) as a chat feed to a chat room. This offers the following benefits:
Filter out HNQ from specific sites, or equivalently, ...
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Mathoverflow - why so different
Curious why mathoverflow (se site) doesn't have hot questions list on the right. It also uses the old stackoverflow design. Why has this site's design and functionality been abandoned (or at least ...
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The new hot questions algorithm sometimes recurses
The hot questions algorithm was changed recently. I like the effects, since I see lots of new interesting stuff every day rather than waiting 6-8 weeks varying amounts of time for the list to update.
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"SO questions are penalized" in the hot list - how does that work, can it be done for other site(s)? [duplicate]
Shog explained in this question about hot list:
SO questions are penalized... if your goal is to get more SO questions into the list, you have a bit of a hump to climb.
How is this achieved?
Or, ...
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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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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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Impose strict time-limit for questions on Hot Network Questions list
Right now there are multiple questions that have been on the Hot Network Questions list for a large number of days:
8 days - How can I explain to non-techie friends that "cryptography is good&...
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Icons For Hot Questions Are Wrong [duplicate]
Self descript. I know it's already been asked here and here. But apparently it's still an issue. This only started happening to me this week that I've noticed. Per the comments in the linked answer, a ...
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Wrong icons in the "hot network questions" column
Currently the "hot networks" column is showing wrong icons for some, but not all of the sites. (The URLs linked to have the correct site).
It seems to happen only on some sites -- I see it on ...
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Dollar signs breaks formatting of 'Hot Network Questions' [duplicate]
Related to Dollar Sign corrupts list of questions (may be latex related) and Dollar Sign corrupts question.
This question:
looks like this in the 'Hot Network Questions' section of e.g. astronomy....
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Send a notification to mods (and 10k users?) when questions go "hot"
Editor's note: This is not a duplicate of Now you can know if a question really hit the HNQ. This asks for a notification when a question hits HNQ; the revision history item mentioned in the other ...
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Limit the number of questions per site in the Hot Network Questions list
I was recently browsing through the Hot Network Questions and spotting a weird pattern with the frequency of the sites. So I decided to tally up the results and what I found was not reassuring. These ...
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