### Why is it on Hot Meta posts?

The question is **a discussion question not marked status-completed, scoring
at least 3 and posted within the past two weeks**.

The algorithm for deciding Hot Meta Posts is as follows:

> -    If there is a community moderator election, a link to it appears in the bulletin.
> 
> -    Events can be created with a start date and time, an end date and time, a simple title, and a link to something somewhere on the
> network. Current or upcoming events are listed, with those starting or
> ending nearest to the current time shown first.
> 
> -    If there are fewer than 4 events, blog posts from the Stack Exchange blog are added to the list. A maximum of two posts will be
> shown, and only those posted in the past n days, where n is currently
> 10 on International versions of Stack Overflow, and 5 everywhere else.
> International sites have their own feeds on the company blog and do
> not list posts from the main English feed.
> 
> -    If there are still fewer than 4 items listed, then featured meta posts are shown.
> 
> -    If there are still under 4 items, the rest of the space is filled with **hot discussion questions not marked status-completed, scoring
> at least 3 and posted within the past two weeks**. These are picked
> semi-randomly. (Note that the timing, score and tags can be adjusted
> per-site to suit the needs of each community)

(emphasis mine)

Source [
What criteria is used to select the links that appear in the community bulletin (events / featured / hot meta posts / blog) sidebar block?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/130893/267099), answer by [Shog9][1]


  [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/811/shog9