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Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by UweSchmidt on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @02:46AM (#7708929)
I find many super lame questions in the new section "Hot Network Questions" on the right side. When looking for "Related", I'm accidently confronted with banalities such as "How does a piano go out of tune" and lots of stuff from Dungeons & Dragons.

I can see how these specific questions could set a bad precedent for "how to deal with stuff you don't know". The omnipresent cross-promotion could lead to more lameness in general.

Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by amrtn on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @03:38AM (#7709030)
I've been using a tampermonkey script [1] to hide "Hot Network Questions". I find them utterly distracting.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/amrtn/3ec581e356a94ef3fa0f