i see down in the right corner it gives the types of topics and it says hot
what is that

Where?

Erm.. a topic on a forum with excessive amount of replies?

Basically what Liitkiva said. I don't think it ever happens here though since we have the 200 post limit. It's a remnant of the format they're using. Just a speculation though. Last time I saw a hot topic was the "Stupid Things I Used To Believe In" thread conveniently located in the link in Antibody's sig.

It means it's been stir-fried with chili and yellow curry. Unfortunately, eating threads is prohibited, so there are no hot topics unless someone breaks the rules.

At the moment hot topic status is achieved at 500 replies so you only really see it in the mod & admin forum.

why dont the public forum reach that?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/724862-forum-rules-and-general-information/page__p__10470780#entry10470780 (Lots of info in the pinned forum rules)

Fascists!

Post limit is set at 200 to keep the forum manageable.

its been a while sense i read those

Stupid hipster clothing.

At least you read them at some stage. Too many don't bother and then wonder why they get grumpy PMs from the mods.

*cough* Most new skyrim posters *cough*

:whistling:

There's also a store called Hot Topic in the US that emos like to shop in. Just thought it seemed relevant to mention.

im not about to go on skyrims forum and put what most people want in that game
hot pixels
im also not partial on getting banned so i read rules and try to follow them

Peace Bullet must be very proud to have made what's likely going to be the last ever "hot topic" in a public forum, unless the minimum amount of posts is lowered. I doubt the mods will ever let a topic come anywhere near that amount again.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf39jf2zJr1qdubemo1_500.gif

How did we manage that anyway? Were we just lucky that all the mods were on leave? Was it that compelling a thread? I still don't get how it worked...:shrug:

I should ask Peace Bullet, he's like, a true alchemist..

A store for Twilight lovers, punk posers, and scaring children.


Otherwise what they said.

Unless you were online that one day. :whistling:

What I think happened was that the thread just so happened to:

A. Be an active topic
B. Hit the post limit of 200 right after the last mod that was online logged off.

It wasn't like we resurrected an inactive topic and said "let's break the rules!," but rather the topic was so active that once it hit the post limit, people kept posting, expecting a mod to close it... and when that didn't happen, people kept posting, feeling sure it would be locked any second... but nothing happened. Then we wound up trying to post as much as possible. As I said in one of the posts in that topic, there wasn't much we could do about it anyway, none of us could lock the topic ourselves and nobody would be able to convince everyone to stop.

It all happened in a very small amount of time, and the only reason we reached as high as we did was because of those two unique factors. We were just really lucky.

Truly, it must've been the highlight of your week.

Well, that same week I also won the lottery, my wife gave birth to our second child, my other child got married, my cat had kittens, I found a box full of gold coins in my attic, and I won three world records... but really all of that pales in comparison to the epic thread.

I was just about to post that... haha!