Very simply self-explanatory suggestion. I've considered simply disabling the 'Hot topic' setting, but there's no actual way to do it.

You can set Number of posts needed to make a 'hot topic' to a really high value (such as 1,000,000) to prevent it from being triggered, but it would be better to have it so that "0 posts" would disable it altogether.

Basically, the code shown in the forum listings of the IP.Board skin will have to be modified to have an IF Statement to not display anything if value is set to "0".

Or... you could just put eight zeros and call it a day? I doubt any thread will have that many replies.... and if it does, make it ten digits.

A thread with 100,000,000 replies would be a rather frightening sight.

A thread with 100,000,000 replies would be a rather frightening sight.

I have seen a thread VERY close to that number. It was sad to see really.

I have seen a thread VERY close to that number. It was sad to see really.

Was it one of those "spam this as much as you can" forum game threads?

This suggestion makes sense.

Was it one of those "spam this as much as you can" forum game threads?

I would have been happier if it would have been a spam game :)

It was a thread full of members arguing......aahh....I mean "discussion". :p