Is there a way to hide questions in Hot Network Questions based on the community?  I know I can do it by tag so I am hoping there is a way to do it by community such as a generic tag that represents everything in that community.  For instance, I would like to hide anything from role playing games.
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I was going to make a filter for the &quot;&quot; by excluding some sites from it.  I noticed  which talks about &quot;negative filtering&quot; but does not explain how one can do it or if it is possible.  There does not seem to be a way to do this, though.  On the filter page, my only options are:  So how can I do &quot;All sites except [list]&quot;? It would also be nice if this could include similar functionality with the meta checkbox.  Something like &quot;All main &amp; meta sites except...&quot;
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I've seen this question asked 3 times, but in none of those threads did I find a satisfactory answer.  I'm not asking about reputation: it makes sense that different sites should have different reputations.  However, consider the StackExchange drop-down menu at the top left of the screen.  When looking through the "Hot questions", the links are often to sister websites of StackExchange (programmers.stackexchange i.e.).  It doesn't make sense to me that if I go to one of those sister sites, I'm no longer logged in.  I feel like it's counterintuitive to click a link to go answer a question, only to find that you can't answer that question until you log in.  What is the reason for this?  Is there an option to do as I'm suggesting?
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On the "top" network profile page, top questions appear before top answers. For users with several top questions, the top answers may not even be visible without scrolling down.    The network profile pages are in part, a way to show a user's work in relation to community values. The "top" page is also the default page on the profile, which makes it the most visible. If our community values answers over questions, , should we not give prominence to the top answers before the top questions? Is there a reason why we place questions above answers?
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This may sound like a 'first world problem', but I am quite easily distracted by the 'Hot Network Questions' sidebar, as I find them quite amusing and some of them quite intellectual  But where the problem lies is that, even at work, if I google something up and find a solution on Stack Overflow, to some random problem I am working at, I (always) get distracted towards them (Hot Network Questions), and end up reading the whole Qs as well as As of that respective question, and this is adversely affecting my productivity.  Any suggestion would greatly help.
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There are a few "automatically protect questions" requests out there, but I'd like to add another twist.  I'd like to request that questions that have three or more deleted answers by users with &lt;50 rep be automatically protected.  The reasoning behind this is that we have lots and lots of "not an answer" flags in the mod queue.  But we cannot protect a question from the mod queue, so we have to open each answer, evaluate if the question needs protecting, then protect it.    This process takes a long time, and can definitely be automated, as the only thing you really need to check is how many new users are posting non-answers or are spamming their awful products.
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How do I hide just the "HOT META POSTS". I don't intend to engage much in the moderation of Stack Exchange sites, so most of the content is irrelevant to me, how do I hide it?  I looked into just adding a user style sheet filter based on the id or class of that element, but then the whole community-bulletin box gets hidden, which might hide important site level messages/broadcasts.   Specially since the DOM structure of the "HOT META POSTS" is not different than the "FEATURED ON META" section, i.e. both use same classes and no id is provided.
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Right now there are multiple questions that have been on the Hot Network Questions list for a large number of days:   8 days -  8 days -  7 days -  5 days -  5 days -    There are also seven that have been there for four days.  I do not see what value a question sitting on the HNQ has when it is there over a week. They clog the HNQ and make it harder for other questions to get there, lowering overall exposure to other sites. They also disproportionately give reputation to users on those sites who have answers there, which results in a dilution of the meaning of reputation.  It is also not uncommon for questions to stay there this long.  My recommendation is a simple change to add a hard cutoff that when a question is more than 72 hours (3 days) old, it no longer is present in the HNQ list.  This would be as simple as adding a date filter into the query generating the list - the hotness formula itself doesn't need to change in order to effect this result.  The goal of this suggestion is not any of the following:   Comprehensively fixing HNQ (there are other problems with it) Revamping the calculation  Imposing site limits/etc   It is purely to add a basic and simple filter to the query in order to more quickly cycle questions through the list.    Note:
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What do people think of the idea that as soon as a question or question title contains certain key words (perhaps a volume of key words), in much the same way it suggests that your post might be subjective, it suggests that perhaps you're on the wrong site?  E.g. on ServerFault, every time someone uses the words "Home Network" or something similar, it popups up a little box "If your question is relating to a home PC or a home network, it belongs over at Super User." (obviously the phrasing needs to be worked on).  Or on any of the sites, if the question contains the name of the site (e.g. Super User Colour Scheme hurts my eyes), suggest the Meta site.  This would obviously catch the question before it gets voted to close 5 times (which on SF can take quite a while, as there's only about 35 3k users, and obviously even fewer on SU).  Thoughts? Ideas?  Prepares for a flurry of downvotes and "Exact Dupe" even though I can't find the dupe
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Curious why  (se site) doesn't have hot questions list on the right.  It also uses the old stackoverflow design.  Why has this site's design and functionality been abandoned (or at least look abandoned?)
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Is it allowed for user to post question proposing some protest actions against SE site/network? For example propose to avoid using it on concrete date or misuse/overuse some of the rules to explicitly show its inadequacy. Actually not sure if we can join these cases, so if they differ, I'd like to find some kind of border between them.  If yes, are there special requirements for such kind of posts? If no, how should such questions be handled: just close as offtopic or close and delete? If some of them are allowed and some are not, where is a border?
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There are a number of questions on Programmers' that seem to be getting a lot of traffic:      for example.  I'm curious as to why these questions are getting lots of views, while others aren't. So I'd like to know if anyone has posted a link on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc.  Can the referrer urls for individual question be made available to the moderators?  I'm not asking for exact and/or precise information - just the domain would do.  Obviously we'd need the a "most viewed" page in the moderator tools somewhere which would show these questions with a popup or link that showed the referrers for this link. A threshold of some kind for the number of views would probably be required to limit the queries made.  (NOTE: I'm not discussing the quality of said questions).
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The question  was recently closed due to not being "about the software that powers the Stack Exchange network, within the scope defined in the help center." MEE is Johann Gambolputty made a comment that     SmokeDetector is a community run project to help to fight spam. Therefore your question is unfortunately off-topic for this site. You can find help in  chatroom.   If questions about community run moderation bots (e.g. SmokeDetector, FireAlarm, Natty, Queen, etc.) are off-topic here on Meta Stack Exchange, is there anywhere on the Stack Exchange network where one can post a Question and Answer-style question on them, or are they only on-topic in appropriate chat rooms?
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Now that questions selected for Hot Network Questions have a record attached to them, those can be queried for in the Data Explorer. However, the Data Explorer is only updated once a week. It would be nice to also have a full list of questions that are selected for Hot Network Questions and the times they were selected added to the 10k tools. In my opinion, it adds to the &quot;bird's eye view&quot; of the site that is afforded to them, and is in line with other similar lists (e.g. migrated questions, protected questions, etc.). Also, a list of questions that were removed from Hot Network Questions by a moderator would be very nice as well.
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I have found myself in an uncomfortable situation after clicking the Hot Network Question widget.   I click the widget, it opens Stack Exchange app and doesn't refresh. That causes me seeing the question I haven been reading a while ago. Fact is that I haven't killed the app since using it last time.   Is there any known workaround to prevent this bug occurring every time I want to read a question opened from a widget? Killing the app/deleting data every time is not a convenient option.   It happens on all Android devices, so device specs aren't relevant, I guess.   Edit: it isn't reproducible 100% of the time. Sometimes it works.
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It looks like the Community Wiki checkbox is no longer appearing on the ask/edit question page, making it difficult to mark questions Community Wiki.  Where is it, and how is one supposed to mark a question as CW now?
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I was wondering how hard it would be to enable a 'hiding' option that let me hide certain questions that I don't want to see. That way if it was a very active question that I have no interest in, I could simply click hide and not see it anymore.  The only foreseeable reason why this couldn't be implemented completely with a Greasemonkey script is that it would be nice to get replacement posts. As of right now, even the hide tag feature simply hides the questions after they were loaded. If I hid a lot of tags, I would end up getting very few questions on the home page.  This is, of course, due to caching.
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We know that if a community is hidden, one can not see the "Network Profile" link except moderators. But I've found that one can still find "Network Profile" link from accounts link on activity tab.  For example, (Though I don't like hiding communities)  I've just hidden a community - Information Security. Now if you go through  on Internet Security, you won't be able to see the "Network Profile" link:        But the "Accounts" link from the  tab will give you my network profile link!    So, in such cases, not showing the "Network Profile" link to normal users is pointless given that the accounts tab contains a link to the Network Profile.  Hence, I suggest removing the network profile link from "Accounts" on the "Activity" tab as it is already available for the profile owner through the "view more" option underneath Accounts.