Timeline for answer to We’re removing “Hot Meta Posts” from Stack Overflow's sidebar for now; moderators now control the [featured] tag by Servy
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| Jul 29, 2019 at 15:15 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | It is a way for 'ordinary users' to express their voice. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | user50049 | @remy_rm As soon as I get my VPN client working again. I'm gonna need to get a dev involved too, because I'm almost positive code for that calculation lives outside of the query, too. There's also a velocity thing we use in our internal chat rooms that could help mods find posts that gain traction all of a sudden, including ones that hadn't had any activity for 3 or so years. In short, I'm going to try my best to get them something put together, and I'll post back. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 11:33 | comment | added | Remy | I think this is a really good suggestion.. Any update on the numbers you've run @TimPost ? | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:02 | comment | added | user50049 | Let me run some numbers on what that output would look like. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 20:55 | comment | added | Servy | @Kendra I know the old system was designed to not change too often, so that people in different timezones would all have a chance to see the same questions. It wasn't something that updated in real time super often, although I don't know the exact algorithms it used. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 20:42 | comment | added | Kendra | Long as it doesn't flood the mods too bad (I don't know how many questions we get that qualify on a daily basis, after all. Would be a nice stat to see.) this is a great way to shift this around. Wonderful suggestion. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 19:25 | history | edited | Servy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:55 | comment | added | Braiam | I know. I'm just following your lead. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:55 | comment | added | Servy | @Braiam I was being ironic...I tried real hard to be hyperbolic to ensure it'd come off...guess I failed. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:51 | comment | added | Braiam | Dunno you, but this change reeks to reactionary, rather than carefully planned. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:50 | comment | added | Servy | @Braiam Presumably this change was proposed internally 2 years ago, and is only now being implemented. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:49 | comment | added | Braiam | Interesting, I was under the impression that bureaucracy made everything slow, but this change came like a bolt out of the blue. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | Servy | @RobertHarvey Have Andy write a bot to put a message in the mod chat? | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:16 | comment | added | Robert Harvey Mod | It's not the code, it's the bureaucracy. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:16 | comment | added | Servy | @RobertHarvey Well we already have all of the code to figure out what the hot posts should be, and I assume the code to create an automatic flag is pretty simple (as those flags with different messages happen all over) so it should be fairly easy to pull together, I'd expect. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:13 | history | edited | Servy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:12 | comment | added | Robert Harvey Mod | That sounds like a pretty good idea, actually. Whether it can actually be accomplished in a practical way is an open question. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 18:10 | history | answered | Servy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |