Hot List

About
The hot list displays the most popular programs on Khan Academy.

It currently displays the top forty programs and displays forty more for every time you press the "More" button.

How
How to get on the hot list:
 * Have a program that gets a lot of votes in a small amount of time.
 * Have a program that gets a lot of spin-offs by different users in a small amount of time.

Importance
Importance of the hot list:
 * Allows programs to be seen by everybody and allows them to get likes and spin-offs.
 * Helps people get "noticed" on Khan Academy.
 * Can earn you badges, avatars, and energy points.

Removed Programs
Programs can be removed from the hot list for many reasons:
 * Soliciting Votes ( Requesting Votes, Making promises for votes, receiving votes from a voting ring )

Once a program receives three flags, it is removed from the hot list.
 * Plagiarism ( Not a spin-off and not giving credit to the original author.
 * Abuse ( Disrespectful or Offensive )
 * Using Disallowed Functionality ( Accessing Externals or the DOM )
 * Off Topic ( Petitions to change the site )

Badges and Avatars
The following badges and avatars can be earned from the hot list:
 * 1000 Kelvin ( Have a red-hot program at the top of the Community Programs list )
 * Cool Hopper ( One of your programs hits the top of the Hot list )

Spin-offs
As of 2013 and below, spin-offs were allowed on the hot list. As of 2014 and beyond, spin-offs can not get on the hot list. Future:
 * This was not an efficient way, because many spin-offs were getting on the hot list even though they didn't change anything from the original programs. Many of the spin-offs got over five hundred votes even though they didn't change at all. This caused many problems and conflicts between users and even the moderators of Khan Academy.
 * To fix the 2013 problem, Khan Academy made it so spin-offs could not get on the hot list. This seemed good at first, but them escalated to even a worse situation. Most people just plagiarize the programs now to get on the hot list on don't even give any credit to the original creators. Even more conflicts are occurring now.
 * Khan Academy is still trying to find a way to fix this conflicts in a new efficient way.

Link
The following is the link to the hot list:
 * https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/cs/browse-programs