We again have a ton of closed questions on the front page with very few edits. I really wish there was an easy way to get close voters without going to each question individually...
@BVR I do not exactly understand what you're trying to ask here - aren't you stepping also on personnal bounds? I mean, if you have to got such base, won't this get personnal? And good morning everyone.
Using once deleted and abandoned answer as a temporary buffer to draft new feature request (for MSO) to address points in decline justification of prior request.
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Reorder questions picked for hot list based on adjusted hotness score (discard some answers by voting evidence)
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@jmac no problem, feel free to edit as convenient - all stuff is kept in revisions anyway and it's not urgent, so recovery of whatever could be lost isn't tough. That's why I preferred to draft it away from MSO after all :)
meanwhile, hotness formula is exploited by spammers (why wouldn't it?)...
This has happened before, with a ring of users causing questions to hit the multicollider, reaching 200 rep, and then abusing the network bonus.
I suggest everyone flag the answers as spam. Not sure if this is the right course of action, but this is best stopped before they reach 200 rep.
I've...
"Yet another indication of issues with current formula is how easy it is to manipulate hotness score... This is because any question vote is leveraged by amount of answers. Consolidated, 2-3 voters can "swing" the score by 30-50... Similarly, adding / removing an answer (any answer) in a highly voted question offers even more possibilities for cheating, because of it being leveraged by question score. If it was a game, I would call this somewhat boring because of poor game balance." (Once you know the mechanics it's quite easy to manipulate) — gnat35 mins ago
discovered a funny way to "indirectly cool down" our hot questions. I go to SO questions in the hot list and lemming-upvote stuff in there, causing them go up in the list. Somehow, I don't feel bad about this, given that per my observations, they somehow manage to keep their hot questions under control anyway (and this in turn may be the reason why SE doesn't give a shit about the damage done to smaller sites)...
@djechlin the difficulty is that no other site is SO. No other site has the number of active moderators to protect questions quickly, 20k+ users to delete bad answers, and the shear volume of other posts to cover up some of the damage on the front page. On smaller sites, we may be lucky if there's a mod on at that time, or a 20k+ user (much less three) and the front page moves at a glacial pace compared to SO. What works for SO doesn't necessarily work for the other, smaller sites. — MichaelT2 days ago
It's January - Where the ones who are working are tired because there is more workload for them from the people who are on vacations, and the one who stayed away are really in "lazy mode". So, when they make questions...
I'm in the first case scenario, for instance... lol
that's a kinda of shame. I am crazy to work outside of brazil. I worked in projects that we worked together with people from around the world, but everything online. Now i would like to see how it's to work with people of other cultures... must be quite cool
Oh, people here are also crazy about working outside the country. They want to go to the USA, Asia, south america. All over the place. But they get angry about foreigners coming here, anyway.
@Chad I don't think it's dropped Chad, I think my vacation and hiatus from editing has created a visible impact to question quality. I'm considering hopping back on the "fix stuff early and aggressively" train for a bit to try to bump it back up.]
Using once deleted and abandoned answer as a temporary buffer to draft new feature request (for MSO) to address points in decline justification of prior request.
draft title
Reorder questions picked for hot list based on adjusted hotness score (discard some answers by voting evidence)
dra...
This has happened before, with a ring of users causing questions to hit the multicollider, reaching 200 rep, and then abusing the network bonus.
I suggest everyone flag the answers as spam. Not sure if this is the right course of action, but this is best stopped before they reach 200 rep.
I've...
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