Okay, so the popular topics for digests are extracted from /top topics. Keeping in mind:
- user permissions to view that topic
- topic notification level (topic shouldn’t be muted for that user)
- user who created that topic must have trust level greater than 0 (should not be a
new user) - topic must be created after the user was last emailed (or last seen on forums if the last emailed date for user is not present)
- topic should not be from muted category
- topic should not be closed
- topic should not be archived
Yes, as long as that topic meets above conditions.