A higher standard for "HOT!"

I noticed recently that every news item was designated as "HOT".

Perhaps the response threshhold needs to be bumped up a little, or perhaps it should be based not on total responses, but rate of response (messages per...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I was thinking that as well. Easy enough to change... what do you consider "hot?" (That's kind of a question for anyone that reads this.)

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I would vote for getting rid of the "HOT" classification altogether. What is "HOT" for me is not necessarily "HOT" for somebody else. I
just don't care that much what everybody else finds most exciting so I'm not any more likely to read something "HOT" then something that's "NOT."

Maybe news that is time-sensitive should have a designation so I read it before it becomes irrelevant.
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Excellent point, millrace.  The number of posts on a thread doesn't really make it any more or less relevant.  Monitoring how many responses a thread gets during a period of time, or in fact the "timeliness" of a news item makes more sense.