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Historically locked question reaching Hot Network Questions via vote manipulation
(Related to this question is this question, which also discusses a historical lock on a hot network question. However, the situation in this case seems to be somewhat unique; in particular, the ...
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Arbitrary behaviour of community via upvoting low quality questions and downvoting better questions [duplicate]
A while back I saw a question (Q1) about why the unix command cat was called that and what was the use when you could simply use vim.
Question was well received and upvoted, but the actual reaction ...
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What is the views:upvotes ratio for clickbait?
In response to the recent problems with the HNQ, I think we need to rethink how the Hot Network Questions are ranked. As @E.P. pointed out, in their answer, one of the biggest, if not the biggest, ...
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General strategy to post something that *avoids* landing on the Hot Network Questions
Based only loosely on How are questions in the 'hot' tab selected?
Some people seem to enjoy landing with their posts on the frontpage, possibly influencing their reputation quite massively (either ...
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Joining a Stack Exchange site for the single purpose of an upvote
I have read many questions asked in SEs I have not joined yet; the sidebar advertises new hot questions and the top questions of many SEs are worth reading.
Whenever I read an really awesome answer (...
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Hot question generally have high views as well as high votes? [duplicate]
Recently having few observation stack exchange site , I noticed that hot question is high voted.
When question is said to be hot question all the user sees it first or user sees that question before ...
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Question Points bouncing around
So I was looking at this hilarious question on Super User when I noticed that the points were going up/down up/down constantly. I asked if anyone else was seeing this they did and thought it seemed ...
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What makes a question 'hot'? [duplicate]
'Hot' StackExchange questions can be seen here, but what exactly is special about them that makes them 'hot'?
Many of these 'hot' questions range from 2-20 upvotes, and range from a minute to a week-...
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Request for hot question vote statistics
Elsequestion it was said:
Guess what: if your site is full of crappy questions, your site sucks - even if they're not highly-ranked by your own users, folks are finding them via Google, and that's ...
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The Anatomy of a Hot Question
Here is the traffic since The Workplace was created:
These are the three questions that caused those huge spikes in traffic:
Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your ...
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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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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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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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