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What formula should be used to determine “hot” questions?
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, it's only ...
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Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts?
Is there any algorithm on SO (that the community knows of) which decides when and how many posts a user can review? Let me elaborate below.
I sat down with a colleague of mine and we both clicked on ...
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If these two questions are related, then so are Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman
Exhibit A:
Profile copying does not correctly copy empty age field
I just copied my profile from SO to meta. I had not given a date of birth in SO but I had entered date for meta.
After ...
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What algorithm does StackOverflow use to determine if a question may be subjective?
I was asking a question in serverfault.com and this message warned me (correctly!):
The question you're asking appears
subjective and is likely to be closed
So, I'm curious if there any ...
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Open the pod bay doors, Community
I think Community may have an algorithm issue.
This answer was flagged for attention by Community with the message "Possible vandalism of own posts; please check recent activity". Recent activity ...
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Can we add these words indicating subjectivity to the automatic question review score?
I've found a few words to search for that are pretty good at finding questions to down-vote or close-vote--good enough that it might be worth factoring them into the question score that determines if ...
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What algorithm is used for generating default user icons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How is the default user avatar generated?
Geometric designs are automatically generated for each user. I know the designs are gravatars, but what is the algorithm ...
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Stack Overflow subjective question validation algorithm [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How does the automatic subjective filter work?
What algorithm does StackOverflow use to determine if a question may be subjective?
I know this is a discussion of the ...
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How does “Questions with similar titles” work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Detecting similarity between questions : How?
I would like to get the basic idea how this is implemented and how the algorithm works, particularly the way it makes ...
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How are recent tags on homepage queried?
Hi, I'd like to know what algorithm is used to display recent tags on homepage? How many recent questions tags is taken under consideration when displaying that tag cloud? Any details?
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Badges algorithm details [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How long does it take for badges to be awarded? How are they generated?
How do badges work, in terms of implementation and database structure? For example, how are the ...
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“Member for” display calculation
I noticed that I recently rolled over to "12 months" on my user profile on Stack Overflow and noticed that I also did not get awarded the yearling badge. I have since figured out that it appears that ...
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Frontpage content algorithm
Quoting from the Privileges page:
Vote Down
When you vote down, you are moving that content "down" so it will be seen by fewer people.
Vote Up
When you vote up, you are moving that content ...
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“Generating a random DFA with uniform distribution” - Where can I ask this kind of question?
I asked this question yesterday. It appears building a random DFA, selected with uniform distribution, is more difficult than it seems.
Should I be asking this somewhere else, or have I come to the ...
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How do the “related question” suggestions work on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How are “related” questions selected?
I'm working on a Stack Overflow-like answers site, and I'm trying to replicate the "related questions" feature. Is ...
