As far as I can tell, substantial part of Qanswers in current formula is fake. (log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascores) About 1/3 of the answers studied here (83 of total 254) have score less than 1/100 of top voted post in respective question. Given that questions checked wer...
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altogether is a good idea. At early stages it appears to be doing quite a good magic, "...it's more sensitive to potentially-hot questions at early stage, when there's not yet enough votes to judge better. Frankly, this is the part I really like in current formula..."
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would be "unfair" to mediocre questions that were made hot by great answers. Don't get me wrong I dislike some things about current formula but have to admit is does some things good (handling of early stage and moderately hot questions looks good to me for example)
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, bad answers have no effect on the question's hotness.
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in current formula...
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would keep answers above 66, 9 of 28, again about 2/3 of current formula value
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(at least not yet0...
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indicates that question is interesting, Qanswers
that it looks answerable. At early stage, when there's not enough votes / views to judge better, combining these looks like a reasonable heuristics (and as far as I can tell it works well - again, at early stages). It's only when question "matures", when two things happen,
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cut off sucks really bad...
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cut off: 44 question remained of total 52.
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