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Hot Network Questions like feature?
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?
I think a system where sites can somehow nominate questions for broader publicity would be helpful, but I don't think we …
4y ago
A suggestion that I recall seeing on MSE is that hot network questions get a feature similar that protection on Stack Ex …
4y ago
The easiest answer to HNQ is to not have such a feature at all. I thinks that HNQ are an ill-conceived feature of Stack …
3y ago
I think there needs to be criteria for why a post should end up there. Whom should the post be interesting to? There are …
4y ago
Considering the planned differences between sites (autonomy with respect to various policies, different categories, etc. …
3y ago
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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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