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Statistics about least exposed sites in Hot Network Questions
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What is the impact of the recent changes to how Hot Network Questions work?
I am looking for some statistics about 30-50 least exposed sites (...
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What is the justification for "Hot Network Questions" on the professional-leaning sites? [duplicate]
After searching for how to turn off 'Hot Network Questions' I see that debate over this topic has been raging for years. Threads have repeated and on-going replies with users posting their ...
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Why is "incest" a blocked word for the hot list?
This question was posted a few hours ago on worldbuilding. Its status on the hot list seems to depend on whether the word "incest" is typed in full, or starred out (like this: "inc*st").
Upon ...
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Block networks from appearing in the 'Hot Network Questions' list [duplicate]
I see this was asked a couple of times about three years ago and at the time the feature request was apparently denied:
Filtering "hot" questions
Can you filter out certain SE sites from the ...
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Please direct me to https through hot network questions if I am browsing securely
I noticed that the Stack Exchange sites are now browse-able in https mode. All the links from the top-bar are also linked as //someplace.stackexchange.com etc.
But, this is not the case for the Hot ...
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Prevent questions with movie/tv shows/game spoilers from appearing in the hot questions list
I've noticed that occasionally "hot questions" from SciFi and the Movies & TV network contain major spoilers about the movie/show discussed.
The Matrix spoilers:
I like browsing through those but ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list.
Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:
'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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Wrong profile pictures are display for (some) Top Askers on Hot Questions page
For some users in the Top Askers section on the Hot Questions page are wrong profile pictures displayed. Especially for the users that are on top of that list. May be it is a caching problem or that ...
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How about adding MathJax to Hot Questions on stackexchange.com?
Almost always in Hot Questions on the StackExchange.com site there are questions from Math.SE, so I think it would be so much better to have these questions rendered correctly instead of reading the ...
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Adding "hot" sorting to Stack Exchange filters
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We're working on adding a "hot" sort to the filters feature. (Currently, the only sorts are "activity", "newest", and "no answers".) When it's finished, you'll be able to ...
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The "Hot" tab algorithm changed recently, does not appear to be working as intended [closed]
Someone add status completed on this question and then reject this edit
Recently I have seen a lot of older high view count questions on the Hot tab. Was the algorithm recently changed?
Before I ...
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RSS feed of hot questions
https://stackexchange.com/feeds/questions
The RSS feed items has the title of:
question title - se site
and it has from field username of original poster
When I subscribe to this RSS feed (using ...
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What does the number in the hot questions signify? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
In the new StackExchange popup menu, what is the number to the left of hot questions?
What does the number against the questions signigfy in the drop down on the top left ...
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Is there a database of old hot questions listed on stackexchange.com? [duplicate]
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Browse hottest questions of previous months or previous weeks
I very much enjoy reading the top 20 hottest questions from the continuously compiled list kept here. Perhaps a little ...
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Create an "Experts View" of the SE sites for users interested in higher-level questions?
Short version of proposal:
Provide us with a way to filter questions for more advanced or higher-quality questions, so we don't have to skim through the masses of beginner questions that exist if we ...
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