> **Possible Duplicate:**  
> [How are “Hot” Questions Selected?](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4766/how-are-hot-questions-selected)  


<p>If you click the `hottest` tab, you get:</p>

![hottest][1]

<p>If you click the `newest` tab, you get:</p>

![newest][2]

<p>So, what are the 2058 questions that are not hot?</p>

  [1]: http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hotq.png
  [2]: http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/newestq.png