Questions tagged [hot-questions]
Questions promoted for their popularity across either the site or the entire Stack Exchange network (where they are seen on the drop down at top left).
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Is this site's penalty factor for Hot Network Questions still necessary?
Currently, this site has a penalty factor imposed on the "hotness" score used by the system to determine if a question on this site should be selected for Hot Network Questions: once a ...
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How do I find what made a question extremely popular?
A few days ago, someone posted an ordinary question, and I gave a mediocre answer.
During those days, the question received much attention and my answer received an abnormally high quantity of ...
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What's up with this 10K+ views question, is it useful or interesting?
I wonder about this question: Should we avoid language features that C++ has but Java doesn't?
It stuck in hot list for 4-5 days, got about 14K views, 16 answers, over 100 upvotes (plus few ...
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Recent Trouble With Popularity
A few recent questions seem to exhibit issues explained in The Trouble With Popularity article:
we discovered that these posts... truly start to drown out everything else on the site... it's too ...
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Is it technically feasible to have 2-3 aging factors for hot questions at Programmers?
I am pondering particular feature request, but before diving deep into polishing its presentation and details, I would like to understand whether the change it would require is technically feasible at ...
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Trial run of modified "hotness formula" for Programmers questions
Could we please make a trial run of modified "hotness formula" for Programmers questions?
Modification details are described in this MSO post as follows:
As far as I can tell, substantial part of ...
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Answers quality in hot questions
For few recent months, I've got a habit of downvoting answers which quality doesn't look OK to me.
These probably can be generally described as low effort and/or these lacking relevance to ...
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Should we be concerned that @StackProgrammer tweets refer to closed/deleted questions?
Like 634 others, I follow @StackProgrammer on Twitter to read and retweet hot questions. However, it's been nagging at me recently that I perceived "a lot" of these tweets -- tweets ostensibly meant ...
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