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  • But if they do all that will the questions be hot? Would anybody want to click the links? Commented Oct 17, 2018 at 20:55
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    @user000001 I'm not quite sure what you mean; can you please elaborate a bit? Commented Oct 17, 2018 at 21:15
  • I was talking about the proposals for having users select the hnq questions, and about the equal representation if all sites. I'm afraid that the selected questions wouldn't be as interesting as they currently are. But now I noticed that they're going to remove it completely, so anything is better than that :( Commented Oct 17, 2018 at 21:20
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    I think this is a good solution. If the goal is to get eyes on other network sites, I'd much rather have good questions than questions that may be a flash in the pan. Commented Oct 17, 2018 at 21:57
  • I think regular voting should be good enough to select good questions. Show questions that exceed a site’s median vote count by a certain proportion. I like guaranteeing that every site gets at least one question on the list every so often. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 1:08
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    @user000001 Content should be "good", not "optimized for clicks". I firmly believe such a focus is better for everyone over the long term, including raw business/traffic for SE. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 1:09
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    Exactly. Optimizing for clickbait is one root cause of the problem here. If a community legitimately believes that a question is one of their best questions that highlights what they're all about, that's something that should be showcased more than a question that happens to generate clicks because it's salacious or eye-catching. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 5:43
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    Guaranteed slots will cause problems with slow sites such as Community Building or Windows Phone: the single-digit-per-month question rate means that every upvoted question on those sites will show up on HNQ, and will spend considerable amounts of time there. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 22:18
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    @Mark That could be a problem; there definitely needs to be a workaround in cases where the site get's ~1 question per week. Some people have suggested promoting old (or unanswered) questions, which could be a nice substitute in those instances. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 22:46
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    @Mark could the time-frame from which HNQ candidates are drawn be scaled to question-rate? I.e. on Mathematics (huge site) HNQ draws might come from only the last 24 hours; on sports (1.3 Q/day) the draw comes from the last month? 0.1 Q/day... I dunno. Not exactly sure how that site exists, to be honest. Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 1:11
  • Perhaps squareroot(Q/day), or erf(Q/day) Something monotonic, smooth, but still less-than-linear. Commented Oct 20, 2018 at 11:23