Since the Hot Network Questions list was revamped 6 months ago, moderators have had the power to remove questions from the list. As Catija, the community manager for the SE network says, I recommend each site have a meta discussion with guidance for moderators about when - if ever - a questio...
I've had at least one question featured as a "hot network question" and during that time it got thousands of views in the course of a few days. But if you look at that question now you won't have any way of knowing that that's where the bulk of its view count came from. Is there a way to find ou...
Let's start off with this SEDE query showing the number of times the ♦ moderators have used the ability to remove a question from the HNQ list. It has been used about 120 times in the past 6-8 weeks; more than half of it by the Mathematics mods, but to put things in perspective (thanks @BillyMail...
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could be another way how to get some rough estimate of questions which were removed from the HNQ list by editing the title.
Why not "all of them"? I'm not sure myself that this is the perfect solution, but take this answer as a way to think about the benefits of HNQ. What good comes to our community from a question being in the HNQ, usually? Most of the time, all that happens when a question enters it is that we get...
Please, don't remove questions from the HNQ list at all I think that the HNQ is a non-issue and we should not exclude anything, just leave the algorithms do their work (whether good or not). So, I add this as an answer because I think that we should give the community also the possibility to cho...
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