Why is the Q&A having a question with so many downvotes as the top in "Hot Today"?

Question

I feel weird to ask this, but usually popular questions with many upvotes were seen in the top of this section. Is a question downvoted but seen by many people considered as popular and therefore deserves a place in the topchart?

Answer 1

The question ranking is not only determined with upvotes, views and numbers of answers also affect; because the question has most views and answers that's why, I guess

Humayra🇧🇩 edit:
I saw their question has a great difference of vote between others
So the dev should improve the question positioning system

Answer 2

Actually I notice that most questions on the Hot Today list only have a few upvotes but seem to be high in comments, views and how recent they are.

Answer 3

So probably it just doesn't happen too often that a question is massively downvoted AND viewed/commented at the same time, hm?

Answer 4

What question are we talking about?

Answer 5

mrityunjay kumar and why is that? 😂

Answer 6

Most downvotes are made, because people don't stick to the guideline of *only posting programming-related questions* here.

Answer 7

I think down vote option should be scraped off ....

Answer 8

Humayara, I saw many questions or comments or answers downvoted unproperly. I was surprised what made people to downvote even though I found those contents useful. Downvoting here or on any technical forum seems to me, people are offended by the those contents .These should not be there on technical forum.

Answer 9

Because it has so many views

Answer 10

Gatma