I didn't build this site so I don't know for sure, but if I had built this site, I'd be using weighted metrics based on a combination of things, such as user clicks/views, updoots, comment frequency, etc etc - all using time (delta) for the comparison. So it might be that, possibly.
I didn't build this site so I don't know for sure, but if I had built this site, I'd be using weighted metrics based on a combination of things, such as user clicks/views, updoots, comment frequency, etc etc - all using time (delta) for the comparison. So it might be that, possibly.
I think Hot is redundant. All of it shows up in New, too.
If it were redundant, it wouldn't sort them to the top... which is the point of "hot".
OP is wondering how it figures out what's HOT and what's NOT.