There is now a 3-day limit for the HNQ.  But what was the longest amount of time that a question stayed on the HNQ for prior to that limit being instituted? I'd imagine some questions having stayed on the HNQ for well over a week.
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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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I share a public IP with my colleagues here in the office, and sometimes I get the following error message:     Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 6 questions in a 24 hour period.   I was hoping if you guys can add a time reset indication like, "You will be able to ask again after 2 hours," where 2 hours is the remaining time till the 24 hours limit ends.  What do you think?
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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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When reviewing whether or not to reopen a question, I came across .  What surprised me is that, IMO, if someone asked that today, they would be all but crucified (endless downvotes, and most likely closed within minutes).    It's not like the post has a few upvotes and downvotes; it has 21 upvotes and 0 downvotes.  So, are all questions equal, but some are more equal than others?  Or were the rules just different in 2010?    I don't really think that it just slipped through the cracks, because there are 0 downvotes...
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Do not allow people to post the minute they created an account.  Let them ask the question but not allow them to post.  Let them stew for 30 minutes and force them through a nice animated tutorial on what they should do before they post and enforcing the fact that bad questions will not get an answer.  If they had a Need to know! basic rules introduction forced on them asking them at the end to check a box I understand! some might ask better questions and help the community instead of flooding the site with bad questions.  The presentation should be on a timer without the ability to skip and highlight the similar questions asked before that might give them the answer.  Also for the first next 9 posts they should have to check a box next to the first 5 of each similar questions before posting.  I do not mean to be harsh, but the truth is I see more negative votes on questions then positive. It's like 90% of the time people give -1 to first questions.
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When answers to a question are posted it is indicated (above the poster's ID) in-terms of the time difference between now and the time of the post.  In the early minutes after an answer, that time is rounded to the minute.  Just curious, but does it round up or down?  Or does it go to the closest minute?  The reason I ask, is because on  today Joe and I posted within a short time of each other.  His did not appear until after I posted mine.  Yet, in the comments someone comes-out and accuses me of poaching Joe's answer saying "there's 2 minutes between the answers."  I wanted to reply with something to the effect of it being a potential difference of 61 seconds or so, but I didn't want to assume that it rounds-up.
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I ask a lot of question on SO, so this recommendation/idea comes from that experience. I'm not really sure how this would fit in with the current structure of SE.   Oftentimes after asking a question, maybe after an hour or so, I end up finding the answer I needed somewhere. And it comes time for me to answer the most difficult question of all: do I delete this question, or do I keep it in case someone answers and others may benefit from it. The problem is, if I don't delete it and no one answers, my acceptance rate goes down. So usually I'll just delete it.  However, sometimes I fear that someone is typing a really really long answer to my question since itäs only been an hour, and so I imagine the nightmare that person experiences when they find out their essay will be gone to waste. Overall, this never-to-be-seen-again answer could have benefitted many people had the question remained.  Since SE has gone "live-happy" lately, where answers and comments refresh live, I thought it might be interesting if the original asker of the question (or anyone else for that matter) could see how many people are currently responding to the question (just count, not necessary to display their names). This way, if I know someone is replying, I won't delete the question, and others can benefit from it.
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I've literally just signed up to Stack Overflow and I tried asking my first question, unfortunately I keep getting this error message      You can only ask 50 questions in a 30-day period.   Having just signed up, I haven't asked any questions yet, and definitely not 50!  I am currently living in the halls at my university, could this be causing the problem? And if so, is there anyway I can get around this as I really need some help :(
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Is humour permitted in questions?  I have tried to have some fun with serious questions, like  (10k only).  I understand that "help" is not allowed in titles because of my other MSO post,   I'm not complaining about blacklisted words here. I do want to know if it's okay to make fun questions with humour.
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If I were in danger of being banned from asking questions, I'd be advised:     ... Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.   It happened to me, very recently. At the time, I only had three questions here on Meta SE. To quote Shog:     That's one positively-received question, followed by two duplicates - the last downvoted and deleted.   How do I improve a question marked as a duplicate?   Rewrite it to something else? Maybe that's gaming the system but at least its a way out. Rewrite it so that it is better than its predecessor? At least then it can maybe serve as a useful landing spot for a search engine result where the search terms matched it rather than the original. Get into the time machine, go back to just before posting the duplicate, do a better job of searching for alternate wordings of the question, then not post it? The only problem being, the Stack Exchange's search engine is, how to put it, far from perfect. Oh yes, and the time machine thing. Forget about it improving "duplicates" -- focus on improving deleted questions instead? How do I manage that?   Please, rethink the way you handle question banning warnings.
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Questions can be merged into other questions.   What is a merged question? When should questions be merged? Who can merge questions? How do I request it? What happens to merged posts? Anything else I should know about merged questions?
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Anyone seen this one yet? Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited My vote was only a few hours old. Then I realized the answer was wrong. Updated my question and went to remove the vote. Even after updating question I still have the issue. Small issue, but frustrating.  See also:
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New users who have less than 125 reputation are subject to a , network-wide.  Today, however,  was able to post two questions within 8 minutes of each other, bypassing this rate limit: , and  today. (Both links are 10k-only.)  How was this user able to bypass the network-wide question asking rate limit? (I'd imagine one easy hack would be to exploit a race condition, but if that were the case, the two questions would be posted at exactly the same time, not 8 minutes later.)  Is it because the rate limit only considers the IP address, and not the account, so if the same account makes the post from a different IP address, it's allowed?  This is not a duplicate of , as back when that was asked, the rate limit worked quite differently, and wasn't even enabled on some sites; today, according to the very first link, it is now enabled network-wide.
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I was wondering how many question and answers are posted each day at Stack Overflow?  I have gone through , but I didn't get a perfect answer.
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can you tell me how can I put questions and get more answers ! what I should do to get more interaction with my posts ! waiting for hours and days maybe months to get an answer or comment is not good ... Really I want some advices , thanks in advance
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I just cast my last vote of the day. But when I did, I received this message:       Daily vote limit reached; come back in 2 hours   However, this was my last vote. I don't need to come back in 2 hours! The vote still stands.  The box should probably only appear if I cannot vote anymore, or the wording should be changed.
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Feature Request  *****Make questions unclosable until one hour after they've been asked, with an exception for flagged questions.*****  Question  What reason can you give for a non-abusive but otherwise bad question being closed as soon as possible?  Bonus points for explaining the rationale behind your answer.  Rebuttal  Since closed questions can still show up on various lists, the implication is that deletion is the goal of closing a question.  Since a question can't be deleted for two days (), why the fuss about delaying the closing of a question for a relatively small number of minutes?  The notion that the signal-to-noise ratio on the home page outweighs all other considerations assumes that most people answer questions mainly from there.  I almost never use the home page, preferring the newest or active tabs, or using a tag.  Seeing as the number of closed questions is so low, I'd hesitate to call them "pollution." I would guess that less then 10% of any of the regular lists consists of closed questions.  Also, it seems that it is much easier to close a question than to .  If you disagree, I invite you to put your reasons in an answer or a comment before doing so with a downvote.   is not a duplicate of this because it is asking what the social norm of the community is for voting and mine is a feature request.  For those who claim that keeping a question open pollutes the home page, I would say why don't we request a feature so that questions with even 1 close vote not appear on the main page at all? This solves the so-called 'pollution' issue.  Related question