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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by mixmastamyk on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:30AM (#46486424)
They introduced recent-votes-count-more, perhaps five years ago.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by n5NOJwkc7kRC on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:08PM (#46520156)
And yet for the past five years, every time I've looked at it, the top answers are all uselessly outdated.

Simply getting rid of the stupid dupe policy would've helped solve this a lot better than time-weighted voting.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by mixmastamyk on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:15PM (#46522086)
It works well in my experience, but it is not always enabled. Seems to be opt-in on every site instead of default.
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