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I saw the featured site on Stack Exchange home page.

How is the featured site being decided? Is there any formula or is it just an editor's pick? Can a site be repeated even before any site is featured?

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    Most likely a manual process, done by a Community Manager. Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 11:50
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    Most likely a random process, done by a cold, unfeeling robot.
    – Shog9
    Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 16:12
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    Most likely I should not make assumptions like this. :) Commented Jul 4, 2014 at 22:52

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It is a random selection from the list of graduated sites.

So, conceivably, the same site could feature a couple of days in a row.

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    Totally random, no weight whatsoever? Quite frustrating IMO! :-) Commented Jul 4, 2014 at 22:53

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