The following question has been on the hot questions list for what seems like awhile:    It's also currently locked. Shouldn't this disqualify it from the hot questions list?
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appeared on the hot network question list for me, even though it was locked 7 hours ago due to off-topic comments.  Questions that have a problem severe enough to warrant a moderation lock shouldn't appear on the hot question list - that'd only add fuel to the fire once they are unlocked. Instead, show it to people for the first time once it's been fixed up.  This is different from  in that that question had a historical question lock, not an off-topic-comments moderation lock.  This is still happening in February 2017, with  appearing on HNQ.
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I noticed that the locked message still references the FAQ. See :  locked by  yesterday This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. This question and its answers are frozen and cannot be changed. More info: .  Since the FAQ has been replaced by the , this message should provide a link there instead. Currently, the link actually takes you to the ; even if it doesn't link to the help center, the text should probably be something like &quot;More info: &quot;.
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When browsing on questions that I would like to answer or flag, I now ended up to a question that was put on hold. I had to open the question to realize it was not an eligible one and it was already put on hold. So nothing to do about, basically.  On software design one rule is to avoid clicks. If I look for questions to answer, I normally skip ones marked as green on list because these have an accepted answer already there. For put on hold questions the only indicator is maybe a flappy title, put for being sure there is no need to even flag the question, I would like to see a yellow color on status (votecount, answer count) box to tell the question is on hold. That way my moderating and answering double focus would immediatedly go for the next one. Desicion of open or not would be easier.  (You may discuss the color, light grey is ok, too.)
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To the left side of questions listed under Hot questions, I see a number.      What is that number? I would think it is the number of users who seen the question, but it's not the same number I see in the Q&amp;A site.
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On Software Engineering we want to update our FAQ to contain a list of what's not allowed much like the  and  ones.  See   However, I've only just noticed that while there is an "edit" link below the What kind of questions can I ask here? section there isn't one below the What kind of questions should I not ask here? section.  So rather than having to bother the developers can we have edit rights over this section as well? After all what's off topic is just as important as what's on topic, and it's just as likely to evolve over time (see Super User as a prime example of this).  We've quite a good list of things we agree shouldn't be asked on Software Engineering and would like to update the FAQ. We'll just edit them into main section for now, but it would be nice to be able to edit the "proper" section.  Can anyone say whether a) this is going to be done and b) when? (and don't say 6 to 8 weeks)
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So I had  closed within eight minutes of asking.  Is this a little fast? Not only do I object to the reason it was closed (not a real question, come on I'm asking for decent books!), but it was closed insanely fast. Should there be a grace period for questions (diamond mods exempt if so) before they can be voted on to be closed?
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Each site got a &quot;hot&quot; tab, where its contents are calculated based on . However take a look on the screenshots below and see for yourself that &quot;hot&quot; got nothing to do with many of the questions listed there. :    :    As you can see, there are questions with negative score, no answers, and even closed. I won't be surprised to see spam in there as well. This can't be any worse. What I suggest, instead of fixing the formula or patching it, simply have the hot tab show the same questions as the Hot Network Questions sidebar. (from the specific site only, of course.) Since the hot questions &quot;pool&quot; (as seen ) is limited to 100 for the whole network, either expand it or have the per-site list show questions with less hotness points - it would still be better than what we have now.
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The locked and closed question  has an  that contains an anti-pattern, .  I tried to edit and to comment, which both did not work, as this is a . Yet, it would be nice if it could avoid advertising anti-patterns.  Is there any way to amend the answer, or any alternative?
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There's a sad little loophole in the suspension/question-block system: migrations.  Example: Let's say you've been suspended on MSO, but you really, really want to post a question here now. All you need to do is:   Go to any other site and ask your question.  Chances are good that a moderator there will automatically migrate it here. If not, request it. Success! Your question is now on MSO.   Can this be fixed? The best approach, imo, is to check if the user already has an account at the destination, and if they do, if they're allowed to post.
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I just reviewed this:    But while reviewing, it already displays the "put on hold as not a real question" section, and it asked:     Should this question be closed as: ?   So as it stands, the audits are broken, since we already know that the question is "on hold" while reviewing, and it is incredibly hard to miss the huge grey box at the bottom.  Another with screenshot:
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I downvoted  and now really can't say why, so I wanted to remove my downvote. However, I get the message:  You last voted on this question yesterday Your vote is now locked in unless this question is edited  Why is this? I don't think I voted on it multiple times, and even when I did, I can change my mind, can't I?
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I was browsing the main Stack Exchange  and came across the "Hot posts" tab. It is a fun thing to see the diversity of the entire network. Then I noticed that there is a list with "Top network askers" right beside it, which is simply a list of the authors of the questions that are listed on the left half of the page.  I suspect that there was some sort of use for this feature, or it was adapted from something similar, but in its current state I don't see any use for it.   Should we:    adapt it to include a more relevant ranking?  consider changing the name of the list to reflect what is actually listed? consider omitting it at all?
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appears to have been question banned because of two unpopular Meta suggestions. (He says so in )  Look at the two contributions that appear to have gotten him banned. Like those of many others, they may not be of perfect quality, but they are not actively harmful to the site, either. As it stands, you can get question blocked on Meta simply for asking questions that aren't popular with the Meta crowd.  Why does the team insist on keeping the question ban active on Meta?  Why can't real problem users be dealt with through manual moderator action? Don't tell me it's a problem of scale; as far as I can see, actually toxic users are very rare on Meta.  People will frequently complain that Meta actively discourages the expression of unpopular viewpoints and suggestions. With the threat of question bans in place, I find those complaints difficult to refute. I hate that.
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Apparently MSE questions are able to appear in the hot list, which the old MSO didn't managed to. Shouldn't MSE behave the same way as the old MSO in this aspect?
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A few days ago, someone posted a question about updating dataset. After some questions/comments to his question, it didn't receive answers (and no up/down vote).  1 or 2 days later, the user posted the  (he just reformulated the question, posted less code and with bad formatting, the code doesn't compile due to missing ' for comments), so it would be harder to get answer for this question . The question received a +1.   I flagged this question as a duplicate of the previous and asked user to edit the previous instead of creating a new one, but he deleted the previous.  I do not blame the asker, I understand he wanted to keep it's 5 points rep  :) And it seems he solved his problem later.  But now the flag is marked with eventinvalidated because it is impossible now to accept or reject it?   Since my flag is no longer appropriate, I am just curious about what could happen to this flag?
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We on  are in beta and we're always watching the hot questions list to see if one of our questions has made it into the hot questions list. Now we observed that it seems that only new questions are listed there.  So is it possible at all for old questions if they earn enough attention (votes and views) to get to the hot questions list? I'm talking about the hot list of all SE sites and not just the hot questions list of a particular SE site.
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I've noticed this twice in the last ~2 weeks or so. The &quot;post your question&quot; button can remain disabled for some reason even when your question is shown as &quot;ready to publish&quot;. I.e., you've gotten to the &quot;review&quot; page after the initial edit. If I remember correctly, one case was on Stack Overflow, and the other was on . I'm not sure what exact scenario leads up to this. I haven't paid attention to the button until the last step when I'm ready to click it. The workaround has been to reload the page. (I copied my content for safe-keeping first.) This works, and the button then shows up as active. Afterwards, however, on both occasions, it forced me through the &quot;are you a human&quot; verification.  Update - this question itself did not exhibit this, nor did it do the .  Update - I'm using Chrome on Windows and am not sure what version it was when this happened.  It has  installed, but there aren't any scripts for any Stack Exchange sites.  It has  installed.  The virus scanner on the PC I probably was using was