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A suggestion that I recall seeing on MSE is that hot network questions get a feature similar that protection on Stack Exchange where users need some (presumably very low) threshold of trust earned ...
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#1: Initial revision
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dmckee
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2020-06-29T04:25:39Z (almost 4 years ago)
A suggestion that I recall seeing on MSE is that hot network questions get a feature similar that protection on Stack Exchange where users need some (presumably very low) threshold of trust *earned* in the site to be able to vote on questions given broader visibility. In Stack Exchange terms that means not counting the association bonus toward the ability to vote on HNQ questions. To my mind this addresses one of the biggest deficiencies of the HQN: swarms of users not aware of the norms of the site distorting the quality metrics and utterly breaking the (already sadly weak) mapping between post score and community judgement of quality. This is so important to me that I'd be in favor of it even with the [site-nomination process that Monica suggests](https://meta.codidact.com/a/276388/276393).