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  • Don't hope that it will somehow miss this time - no. The way how buggy collider score damages questions is reliable and predictablereliable and predictable, it will go round and round and round again until the hell freezes over. When you know how collider bug works, following to what happens to hot question is like watching the train wreck in the slow motion.

...dropping the hot list doesn't makes sense to me (as explained hereas explained here).

  • Don't hope that it will somehow miss this time - no. The way how buggy collider score damages questions is reliable and predictable, it will go round and round and round again until the hell freezes over. When you know how collider bug works, following to what happens to hot question is like watching the train wreck in the slow motion.

...dropping the hot list doesn't makes sense to me (as explained here).

  • Don't hope that it will somehow miss this time - no. The way how buggy collider score damages questions is reliable and predictable, it will go round and round and round again until the hell freezes over. When you know how collider bug works, following to what happens to hot question is like watching the train wreck in the slow motion.

...dropping the hot list doesn't makes sense to me (as explained here).

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Above is what concerns me in questions like CroissantsCroissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formula.

Above is what concerns me in questions like Croissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formula.

Above is what concerns me in questions like Croissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formula.

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I wasn't going to go out on a limb but since a follow up question has been askedhas been asked...

Above is what concerns me in questions like Croissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formulabuggy formula.

PS to address commentcomment having unfairly high score...

To preemptively address yet another "funny" comment like gnat doesn't like hot list but he wants to keep it, he doesn't know what he wants - I know what I want (as explained hereas explained here).

I wasn't going to go out on a limb but since a follow up question has been asked...

Above is what concerns me in questions like Croissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formula.

PS to address comment having unfairly high score...

To preemptively address yet another "funny" comment like gnat doesn't like hot list but he wants to keep it, he doesn't know what he wants - I know what I want (as explained here).

I wasn't going to go out on a limb but since a follow up question has been asked...

Above is what concerns me in questions like Croissants. And frankly, I think we're doomed to experience these issues (at least at Programmers) as long as collider uses buggy formula.

PS to address comment having unfairly high score...

To preemptively address yet another "funny" comment like gnat doesn't like hot list but he wants to keep it, he doesn't know what he wants - I know what I want (as explained here).

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http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/21?m=10606504#10606504 -> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/192046/165773 "In hotness formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points"
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In hotness formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates against their popularity
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"broken" -> "bug in" // formula isn't bad enough to call it broken (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/99077/dont-let-questions-stick-to-the-top-of-the-hot-questions-list-forever?lq=1#comment496917_101857)
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"Croissants" went down from 16 to 14 answers in about an hour, between 1st and 4th revisions of this answer
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