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

Hot TODAY works with time now xd...
most questions at the top lists are made yesterday and they'll be there for like 2days before they get off the list.
PS: Farhan🏁 i think it's a deliberate feature and not a bug tho, that's how it works in the previous update before this and i'm pretty sure multiple users would've complained then.. also the used-to-be trending "welcome to sololearn" thread has been removed since the previous update

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

mrityunjay kumar and why is that? 😂

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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 8

Because it has so many views

Answer 9

Gatma