1:41 AM
" But it was not I who raised the tangential point about whether or not MSE suffers more from the Hot list than other sites." The reason I raised it was to explain why I doubt math.se would get a special treatment re HNQ. There is just no grounds for that. Alright one could scrap HNQ altogether but that was discussed many times on the general meta.
This was an answer to the Q if mods could ask somewhere for not being included. Yes, they could ask on Meta SE, but it feels pointless for the reasons mentioned earlier.
If a small specialized site or one with many controversial topics would ask for it maybe. But really for math I do not see what is special about math compared to physics, chemistry, CS, etc.
Or on academia I feel it is more of a problem. Where questions are vaguer and any number of people than offer their 2 cents, since of course they are experts as they attended some school at some point.
Or also on MO, sometimes, as the difference in knowledge between target audience and average SE is higher than around here.
Really I am astonished my claim was even controversial.
A way in which math.se is affected a lot is in absolute numbers of Q in HNQ, I guess.
Maybe one could ask for a tweak of the algo re this. I think SO has a special casing in place, so that it does not swamp the list.