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Hot Network Questions like feature?

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Initially HNQ's were the only reason I ever contributed to sites outside of Stack Overflow. In my opinion, a similar tool might be even more valuable in the early stages of Codidact's growth. I could see it increasing user engagement across communities.

Of course HNQ has had a controversial recent history in SE, with several examples of non work appropriate topics and trolling making their way to the HNQ bar. But I think rejecting a HNQ based on this is throwing the baby out with the bath water. I think this can be helped if sites have some degree of control over what posts are eligible for HNQ, or even if any posts in a community get shown at all.

Is there a plan to add a Hot Network Questions (HNQ) like feature?

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I think there needs to be criteria for why a post should end up there. Whom should the post be interesting to? There are two possible different audiences/scenarios:

  • This post is interesting to read for beginners of the topic or for anyone generally curious, who do not have any deeper knowledge of the topic.

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  • This post is interesting to those with in-depth knowledge of the topic and follows certain tags on the specific site.

I don't really see the need to promote the latter kind network-wide.

SE kind of mixed these two. On SO, I had posts of mine end up on the HNQ a couple of times even when the topic was some nerdy, fairly advanced, programming language-lawyer thing that couldn't possibly be interesting to beginners, let alone a broader, general audience. I suspect it was some mod with specific personal interest in the tag who promoted them.

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Charlie Brumbaugh‭ wrote over 4 years ago

The simplified algorithm for getting onto the HNQ is getting answered quickly and then lots of upvotes in short order. It wasn't something that mods could put questions onto