Why does Poker never get on the hot network question list?
There was a poker question from board games on the list.
Why does Poker never get on the hot network question list?
There was a poker question from board games on the list.
I believe it's detailed in this Meta answer:
Basically what's documented here:
We have a few tweaks:
Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. So, the first question from SO in the list gets multiplied by 1.0, the second by 0.98, the third by 0.96, etc)
We make a per-site traffic adjustment so SO does not dominate the entire list
The benefit of many answers is capped at 10
We only degrade based on question age, and not the last update date on a question, so questions don't pop back up to the top every time they're edited
Views are not counted towards the score
The core of the formula (without the site-based degrading or traffic scaling) is:
(MIN(AnswerCount, 10) * QScore) / 5 + AnswerScore ------------------------------------------------- MAX(QAgeInHours + 1, 6) ^ 1.4
So for example, this question which has one answer with a score of 3, a question score of 3 and is 48 hours old would score 0.0017
whereas this question from SO would score about 0.054
(both before traffic scaling), so over 30 times higher scoring than the Poker.SE question.