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Prevent questions from being tweeted onto the site's Twitter account if they are removed from Hot Network Questions [closed]
This question made it into Hot Network Questions, but was removed by a moderator later. Six hours after the removal, it was tweeted onto the site's Twitter account, drawing it more attention.
In my ...
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Allow Users with Starting Bonus to Upvote/Comment on any Site Without Signing Up for That Site
I'm sure it's happened to you: you're browsing Stack Overflow, when you see that amazingly tempting HNQ in the corner. You click on it, and have an immediate urge to comment/upvote. You click the ...
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Prevent showing current question in HNQ sidebar [duplicate]
Sometimes when visiting a Hot Network Question question, that very same question will sometimes appear in the HNQ sidebar. Example here:
Silly sidebar, I've already seen that question--I'm there ...
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How to hide entire sidebar except for question stats
There's already a question on how to hide the "Hot Network Questions" from the sidebar on all Stack Exchange sites. The most popular answer suggests adding ###hot-network-questions to your adblocker's ...
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Rename Hot Network Questions 'Watching the Pretty Flames'
I've seen a few good questions on HNQ in the more distant past, but in the past few months, almost any time I've seen a question featured in HNQ it's been one that has attracted a lot of activity ...
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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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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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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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Trolls in our Halls
In Stack Exchange portal, it says:
Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of 112 question and answer sites on diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming. We build ...
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Replace "Find a Stack Exchange Site" with "Hot Questions"
Unlike the vast majority of the posts I've seen here, I actually do quite like the new top bar, for the most part. (Subjectively speaking, though, I'm very partial to dark themes; obviously it all ...
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Please return the hot question dropdown to most pages
The UI update from a few minutes ago appears to have removed the hot questions tab of the StackExchange dropdown on the top menu bar from all pages except the Stack Exchange homepage. Instead all I ...
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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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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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Does SE record a question's hotness?
I've read about how hot questions are calculated, and it appears to be a constantly changing number, since it deals with time since recent activity. But is this hotness rating ever recorded anywhere ...
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Add tags next to the question in list of hot questions
Clicking on the StackExchange icon pops list of hot questions (sorted by votes). For example like this :
It would be great to add list of tags next to the site. If not possible all tags, then only ...
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