I think it’s already a bit more scalable than what we had before, but I was mostly referring to a future version of the Q&A system, after we added some more related question functionality, and made it so that people notice questions for longer than they stick around on the frontpage, and some way to keep track of major open questions.
FWIW, I was thinking of the related relationship as a human-defined one. That is, the author (or someone else?) manually links another question as related.
I think it’s already a bit more scalable than what we had before, but I was mostly referring to a future version of the Q&A system, after we added some more related question functionality, and made it so that people notice questions for longer than they stick around on the frontpage, and some way to keep track of major open questions.
I would think related questions is something to put off until you have lots of question data on which to tune your relatedness metric.
FWIW, I was thinking of the related relationship as a human-defined one. That is, the author (or someone else?) manually links another question as related.
I think having it be automated will help posts avoid getting forgotten in the sands of time.