Why does Poker never get on the hot network question list?
There was a poker question from board games on the list.
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Maybe because the community is too small to actually generate enough traffic to breach the threshold? That'd be my guess. – Seth Oct 6 '16 at 12:45
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@Seth I looked it up and there is and activity equation – paparazzo Oct 6 '16 at 20:56
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@Paparazzi perhaps you could post the equation and a link for future reference if people come across this question? I for one would be interested to know the mechanics of how questions make it onto the Hot Network Questions (I'd be surprised if there isn't a question on Meta Stack Exchange about this). – 3N1GM4 Dec 12 '16 at 12:40
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Yup, I think this Meta question has the info? Is that what you found @Paparazzi? – 3N1GM4 Dec 12 '16 at 12:42
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.
