The DMZ

8:03 AM

@forest Oh noes, IPS got blacklisted? :(

Anonymous

@forest Why can't I downvote twice?

Anonymous

@forest Wait what happened with the IPS thing? :O

Rory Alsop

9:27 AM

Someone took umbrage at having IPS questions (some of which may be nsfw) popping up in the HNQ box while they were on SO

It got Twittered, and a CM saw an easy fix and pulled it from hnq

Anonymous

I see.

Rory Alsop

Then everyone kicked off at this being done without any community consultation

Much ado about nothing, IMO. I'd have Sec questions blocked from hnq if I could

Q: What caused this site to be excluded from Hot Network Questions?

Recently, the Stack Exchange team made the decision to exclude this site from the Hot Network questions on the right sidebar of questions across the network and on the stackexchange.com homepage. Why was this decision made? Were question titles on this site too inappropriate? Can we please get f...

What bugs me is that the tweet that @forest linked has only ~40 likes, was it really enough to trigger a site exclusion?

Anonymous

Was the students flirting question what kicked all this off? But it's such a tame title! – curiousdannii ↵ 8 hours ago
@curiousdannii No, it was only a partial cause. This was clear in chat, and I made no judgments about why it would be kicked off. – gparyani ↵ 8 hours ago ...?

Anonymous

So it wasnt all because of the Q?

A: The Memes of Arqade and its Chat

9:38 AM

Meme: Questions that are absurd without context Originator: Various Cultural Height: As Often as Possible Background: How can I get my wife to stop nagging about a few murders? fable-3 Can I pass out from excessive drinking? bioshock How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat? nethack How c...

all this .. is.. weird

Anonymous

Wait, you mean the HNQ thing?

yeah

what else?

Anonymous

9:48 AM

I really don't understand why people get so hyped up about this stuff

Anonymous

I got enough of my own drama to be involved in drama, lol.

Anonymous

I hate drama.

I loved seeing IPS in HNQ :(

to read cheesy weirdo questions?

Journeyman Geek

@BenoitEsnard there's a conversation going on on meta and elsewhere

Q: Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature, what are our shared goals for having it?

9:50 AM

@JMG I think that's why Benoit linked to the memes of Arqade

Journeyman Geek

Some things happened yesterday that caused a need for us to (quickly) remove a site's eligibility to contribute to the list of hot network questions. For those of you not familiar with what we've come to call the 'HNQ' list, please visit the link; the list of questions shown as 'hot' on stackexch...

discussion featured hot-questions

3 hours later…

12:52 PM

Probably unpopular, but I think there should be mechanism to independently vote questions towards HNQ

I love the way HNQ works tbh

Journeyman Geek

@Arminius apparently it's too expensive performance wise

Rory Alsop

1:45 PM

I find no positive value in HNQ, whatsoever.

And a lot of negatives

It was vaguely funny working out how to game it, but since then it's generally a tide of scum that occasionally washes up on our beach

2:00 PM

Well, I think HNQ is great to find new SE sites

AJ Henderson

it probably would be good to have periodic votes for whether to have HNQs on for a particular site though so that the community of each site could decide if it is worth it. It's good for site growth, but not so good for site quality

2:45 PM

I think that displaying content from other sites of the network does a lot for making SE feel like a larger community, not just isolated sites. So although HNQ is potentially distracting and fundamentally broken, I wouldn't want to give up on the idea entirely

6 hours later…

8:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek I find it hard to image what's so expensive about that

AJ Henderson

8:38 PM

@Arminius I'm not sure that would do much anyway since then it would never popularize questions from small sites that lack sufficient users

you could possibly scale it with the number of site users somehow, but that has the potential to cause problems too

because it would then be abusable

it might be interesting to do some kind of tiered thing where high rep users ended up getting kind of a HNQ beta and had to vote on questions to include in HNQ

could be interesting if it required certain rep levels on multiple sites

something to encourage/reward people to participate in more than one site