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Should we improve/filter hot question? [duplicate]
We see migrated, close, down voted (more than five down voted)
questions are in hot tab.
From this scenario many questions arise in mind & See the picture below
These types of questions are hot ...
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How can I check how hot a question is? [duplicate]
When a question gets to the "Hot Network Questions" tab you can hover it to see how many hotness points it has.
(Note this doesn't occur for the HNQ list in the bottom right of most pages, it's just ...
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Why are questions with obvious answers often upvoted? [duplicate]
To me a good question shows some level of research done before asking the question. However, I have noticed that naive questions where the answer is obvious to the vast majority of us, quickly become "...
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How are Hot Network Questions selected? [duplicate]
I see lots of Hot Network Questions which don't have lots of votes and views (after becoming hot network question, it gets both lots of votes and views).
How are they selected? Is this purely random ...
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Is Unicode in Hot Network Questions question titles allowed?
One of my recent questions on Programming Puzzles and Code Golf, titled ☁ A Little Cloud ☁, was renamed in an edit to Little Chandler is sad. Draw him a cloud to cheer him up. I don't mind the title ...
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Why are there always flamewars over questions where many people know the answer? [closed]
I already came across questions to which many people "knew" the answer. Usually it gets many upvotes and downvotes, many answers and even more comments. It gets voted to be closed and re-opened again. ...
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How are the top questions of the "week" and "month" calculated?
Jeff Atwood explained a while ago how "hot" questions are selected in this post.
However, I am wondering how are the "top questions of the week" and "month" calculated? Is it by a slightly modified ...
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Titles for /questions pages are misleading
The title of https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&sort=votes (last page of questions sorted by votes; the lowest voted questions) is "Highest Voted Questions". This is obviously not ...
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Why are there 403,517 "hottest" questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How are “Hot” Questions Selected?
If you click the `hottest` tab, you get:
If you click the `newest` tab, you get:
So, what are the 2058 questions that are not ...
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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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What is the difference between "hot" and "active" questions?
The two tabs have following tooltips
Active : "Questions that have recent activity"
Hot : Questions with recent interest and activity
They seem to display different questions with some common ground....
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