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    The tour page itself is a bit scope-creepy for this project, especially during the trial. May be a reasonable thing to include in next steps, depending on how the test goes, though ^_^ Commented May 18, 2021 at 10:49
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    I think it is essential to the succes of HNQ ads, that these questions are really exemplar questions of that community. Therefore I don't think we should rely on metrics to decide which questions should be showcased, but on human judgement. Whether that is done manually by CM/Staff (let each site pick X questions to be eligible for ads) or have some Mod tooling to more frequently rotate questions is a detail that could be worked out later. Commented May 18, 2021 at 10:59
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    Oh, I'm in agreement with regards to these needing to be manually curated rather than algorithmically picked — that's why my calling them "HNQ" is footnoted, since they actually are meant to replace those and won't be "hot" any more. Whether the tour page gets added functionality or somehow worked on as a part of this project is what I meant is scope-creepy for the moment. Commented May 18, 2021 at 11:04
  • eh... i dunno if i trust moderators to choose questions that are actually on topic rather than just interesting enough to avoid closure. Commented May 18, 2021 at 15:39
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    @KevinB (and others) Not moderators - people voting on meta. If I understand the project, the "hot" questions would get proposed in the same manner as the ads do now - six upvotes on meta, the community has judged it to be a good one to include. This is not like the tour, which is decided by mods, it's like the community ads/open source ads we've had. Also, many sites have gone through a meta discussion process to decide what should be the featured question on the tour... so it's not even just mods deciding then. Commented May 18, 2021 at 15:47
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    That is correct, @Catija Commented May 18, 2021 at 15:49
  • Right, i was referring to this part of the answer, "Will ♦ moderators be able to showcase/unshowcase specific questions". I could see veto power existing Commented May 18, 2021 at 15:51
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    I read that as being specific to the broader discussion around the tour page, @KevinB. But if it is about this initiative specifically, then I didn't foresee including a veto power for mods on this, no. Commented May 18, 2021 at 15:58