The SE software allows us to request certain regular expressions be automatically excluded from the Hot Network Questions. I was asked by the CMs to make this post on the meta, and include the list. This way the community can express agreement or disagreement, as well as suggest improvements. Let...

This request is, specifically, declined but we have added a subset of words to the HNQ filter just now. Using the responses to the question asked by quid: Which words (if any) in the title of a question should prevent inclusion in the HNQ list? I've requested the top upvoted answers there to be a...

This feature request is a follow-up to How is decreasing hotness score of successive questions from same site by 2% supposed to work? As was pointed out in the above question, currently this adjustment fails to make any reasonable impact (neither positive nor negative). hotness score of successi...