Hi there,
What makes a story enter the Popular category? Is there a certain number of upvotes required, a random algorithm, manual tagging or other systems? Please tell us the machinations behind the Popular category.
Cheers!
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I think itās down to how many trees are in there; whether or not itās just the one, about a copse worth, or even an entire forest.
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ā¦ oh, sorry. Thatās the poplar category. 
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Groan
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Stephen, you son of a birch.
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He needs to respect his elders.
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Oakayā¦
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Way to derail the thread 
But actually, I thought āAsk The Editorsā threads only got created once an editor answered the question ā so far, I always saw an editorial answer along with the OP (and I know when I made such a thread, it was in limbo for a week or so, apparently because it was waiting for an editor to look at it). I wonder why this changed.
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Itās what happens when this lot are board.
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(Fittingly, a pun/tiresome joke, in Hungarian, is called a āfaviccā, literally wooden joke 
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Maybe we should start fencing. Lol
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I misread, and for a moment wondered how many trees made up a corpse.
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If the corpse is cremated: ash
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As poplar as this thread has been can either @The_Red_Pen or @KillerTomato elaborate on the Popular machinations please? I think that we canāt see the wood for the treesā¦
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Hey all!
So this isnāt really a question for the editors, as itās a mathematical algorithm that determines what ends up in the āPopularā category. Iāve asked some of the techy peeps, and theyāve informed me that itās a set number of the top-voted stories randomized. The number is somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 but Iām not too sure.
Hope that helps!
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Computerical Sorcery. Cheers for that! That suits meā¦ 
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