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  • @Mari-LouA: Would it be fair to leave all the decisions to a small team? – Well, the alternative are regular reviewers and given robo-reviewing and other bad decisions made by them, I really wouldn’t trust them with this. Mods can at least be held accountable to some extent. Also, keep in mind that the main point of this is to filter out the really bad stuff. That being said, some bias is unavoidable, but that also applies to all methods of choosing HNQs. Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 9:34
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    Instead of mods; maybe xxxx+ rep users. Finally something serious to do as a 10k user ;-) Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 12:51
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    There's a feature request for your first bullet point at Add a Hot Network Question review queue for cleaning up questions that are about to become hot. Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 21:20
  • eykanal answer also touched this sensible point. Isn't one of the goals of the network to build an encyclopedia of knowledge? It doesn't really matter if something was posted last year or yesterday, does it? Commented Oct 20, 2018 at 0:10
  • Thanks @Wrzlprmft you said this better than I would have. Since moderators for a site are most likely to have the best idea of what questions would promote their site (rather than put people off) I think they are in the best position to decide what questions should be eligible for the HNQ. I agree that 10k users might also be worth adding into the mix though too. Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 9:19
  • From another angle, I've long thought smaller sites are most harmed by the freshness factor - even moreso sites where good answers often take a lot of work to compile (science/math/certain programming/etc). I'll often bookmark a Q and come back to it months later to put together a quality answer. But I know no matter how good the answer is, it'll never gather much interest. A fair % of users in the community will see it back active and assume it's just the same old question. But no matter how many users at the site upvote, it still fails the 1 month rule for HNQ. All certainly discouraging Commented Oct 26, 2018 at 21:17