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    Don't even get me started on Arqade; we positively delight in misleading titles. Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 18:09
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    How can you not mention Mathematica? That site was literally classified as porn at one point. :P Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 22:14
  • @Laurel I wasn't aware of that happening to Mathematica - was it because of a bunch of question titles that would fit here? XD Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 22:36
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    I like your point but, to be honest, there is definitively title here that I wouldn't want to see on my HNQ list (the ones about sexual assault) and I absolutely hope that they are already banned from the HNQ list. Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 4:56
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    @Noon I fully agree that questions like that shouldn't be on the HNQ list, since they absolutely do look bad out of context. But my main point was that if SE seriously wants to use the logic that they stated in the question, "Now that we have gotten to the point where we've gone from saying 'Let's ignore titles with these words..' to 'Let's ignore sites with these titles..'" They'd have to ignore most of the well known sites on the network, because basically any site could have titles that look bad out of context. Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 5:28
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    My word! That's some question list you've compiled there! I really hope no-one tweets it out! Commented Oct 25, 2018 at 14:17
  • @X-27: I don't understand the purpose of this answer. The question is not stating that banning IPS or a few keywords is expected to fix everything. The question is asking about ways to move forward in a way that things like this don't happen. That is, how to fix the HNQ so that it has the effects they want but without the downsides like what happened with IPS. They're going to overhaul it; the question is merely how to do that. Commented Oct 26, 2018 at 16:25
  • I was expecting controversial question titles from mathoverflow as well, bummer. That would be hilarious xD Commented Oct 27, 2018 at 18:46
  • a recent example from Writing.SE: What is a subtle way of mentioning one got an erection? (title was edited after it has been sitting erected for about a day at the top of the hot questions list) Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 9:29