@IsaacMoses I don't know how hotness is computed. Hot questions (from what I've seen) tend to come from sites with more users/views (i.e. the bigger sites), but I think there's also a velocity component. The actual formula is a secret, I understand.
@MonicaCellio OK, well, like I said, it could be worse. I think we've indeed had worse question posts in the spotlight. At least this one poses a worthy question and got multiple good answers. Thanks for the alert.
@IsaacMoses @msh210's edit helped a lot. I was just sitting down to make a similar one (before seeing that it was hot) when I saw his -- nice job, and more thorough than mine would have been.
@HodofHod wow. I saw one vandalism edit in the review queue this morning but didn't notice which post; beyond that I haven't seen them go by, so at least people are nuking 'em quickly it appears.
If there anything (legitimate) you can do to increase the post length, it might be worth it just to make the attempts (and their pings) stop.
@IsaacMoses ah, that sounds relevant. I wonder in which direction the causation goes -- does Stack* tweet hot questions, or do tweets draw enough attention to make questions hot?
@HodofHod there is some auto-screening of anonymous edits (these are anonymous, right?) to kick out ones that change too much of the post -- but that doesn't kick in for very short posts.
@HodofHod yeah, I don't know how the filter works or why it cuts off where it does. I don't believe I've seen this kind of vandalism on posts that are about twice as long as yours, FWIW. And sometimes there's not really anything you can do; your answer looks complete to me, so unless you wanted to cite some sources for the Arabic language or add another example alongside your "USA" one, I don't see much to do there. :-(
