If you see a question in HNQ which does not "deserve" to be there, why not simply put MathJax in the title. Do questions with LaTeX in titles appear in Hot Questions?

I guess that there are enough users on this site who are experienced enough to know about this. And most questions on this site are such that there is some mathematical formula which can be added to the title.

in many cases adding a formula to the title makes the title more descriptive - such improvements should be done anyway. (Independently of the HNQ issue.) I remember seeing questions there with titles like "Limit with factorials" or "Difficult integral".

BTW this answer contains a sample of post which appeared in HNQ.

On meta.MO when evaluating HNQ, Shog9 gave stats on have many visits come from them. So it seems that SE team is able to get some data about this.

BTW thanks to this room I have noticed that when chat rooms are ordered by activity, the rooms imported from meta are shown after the rooms imported from the main site. This one is currently shown at the end of page 4.

@MartinSleziak Since I am mentioning traffic from HNQ, there is also site analytics (access for 25k+ users). However, the number of visits in site analytics from SO means all links coming from that site.

This includes the traffic from HNQ, but it seems likely HNQ is only a small fraction of that. (At least if the situation is similar as on MO.)

For example, there are many posts on SO directly linking to posts from this site. Search for url:math.stackexchange.com. And for comparison url:mathoverflow.net‌​. (At the moment, the searches return 1420 and 151 results, respectively.)

This SEDE query returns 3334 comments with links to math.SE.

BTW if one of the main problems that people see with HNQ are upvotes, there are these feature requests:

Prevent questions on Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)

The association bonus should not enable users to vote on every site

Although the latter is already marked status-declined.

@quid: Ah okay. If that's so then just too bad that Math SE has more popular questions. I can't say I'm surprised when everyone who sees a HNQ like "Is 1+1 really 2?" will click it.

Seems like a wonderful way to get poor quality threads off the HNQ list (if the community doesn't mind it).

@MartinSleziak Tangentially related (in a way dual) recent meta question:

@quid I can only speak for myself, but I think many users do the same: When I find the question which needs some improvement (more descriptive title, retagging, improving formatting, ...) I do so. And it does not matter how I found the question.

I might edit question which I noticed in review queue, or which I noticed on the main site. And, of course, if I see a HNQ in the sidebar, I very often click on it and have a look.

If I see some possible improvements, I do them. (After all, this is what users from other sites see on math.SE.)

If I know suspect that the same question has been asked before and I have some time, I search for duplicates. This might be sometimes problematic - since the new question might already received more or better answers than the old one because it gained more attention. (You can find several related discussions if you search in crude for hot or hnq.)

The only change I am bit reluctant to do on the HNQ is to add MathJax to the title - especially if it is a decent question and if title seems at least to some extent descriptive even without MathJax. Precisely for the reason that I know that it removes the question from the networkwide list.

However, the thread linked by quid mentions among the examples of question in HNQ list with bad titles three posts from math.SE.

Although personally I think that the title group theory for non-mathematicians might be ok (up to capitalization).