It's the how, not the what. It feels like IPS (which I'm not actually super-involved with, despite the rep) was targeted, when the hot list gets WTF? questions from lots of sites that weren't. The Workplace would very much like to opt out of being on that list because people like to troll us and HNQ picks it up before we can shut them down.
Early on IPS asked to be off the hot list and was either told no or ignored (don't remember). A reasonable end state would be that any site that wants to be off the list gets to opt out. What happened, though, feels like a site being punished and publicly shamed.
There's also an element of "our requests get routinely ignored but you'll act on the basis of a tweet? We need to go to Twitter to get listened to? WTF?".
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Date: 2018-11-22 03:59 am (UTC)Early on IPS asked to be off the hot list and was either told no or ignored (don't remember). A reasonable end state would be that any site that wants to be off the list gets to opt out. What happened, though, feels like a site being punished and publicly shamed.
There's also an element of "our requests get routinely ignored but you'll act on the basis of a tweet? We need to go to Twitter to get listened to? WTF?".