Don't shout at me.....but what does that flaming symbol beside thread titles signify?

[Jackeens]

:blush:

Honest, I've tried to find out all by myself, but I've given up. And I can't work it out because I'm stupid.

It's on a par with me taking six months to realise U2's song MLK was about Martin Luther King.

:blush:

Be nice, please.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Hot topic

[Warpy]

2. Multiple replies burning up the bandwidth

[TahitiNut]

3. LOTS of views ... interest.

It's supposed to indicate a "hot" thread.

[Common Sense Party]

10. But it can't be a "hot" thread if it has a rec count of

Can it?

[TahitiNut]

29. Absolutely nothing to do with # of recommendations. It's traffic.

That's all.

[Common Sense Party]

34. Sorry, that was meant to be tongue in cheek.

A poke at all the Chicken Littles who fret that a negative rec count is going to kill their thread.

[JVS]

4. over 50 posts, thus activity

[scarletwoman]

11. I thought the flame icon showed up at 30 posts on a thread, did it change? nt

[JVS]

22. It was upped a couple years ago.

[scarletwoman]

25. D'oh, I wonder how I missed it? Thanks. Must have been during one of my occasional breaks from DU.

Obviously it's never mattered enough to me to have noticed. :)

[Peacetrain]

5. 50 plus replies Jackeens

[Bicoastal]

6. IT MEANS MORE THAN FIFTY--

Oh, sorry.

It means more than fifty people have responded to an OP, and the thread is "really heating up." A hot topic, like they said above.

[Common Sense Party]

7. A thread is designated "hot" once it gets 50 replies.

Hot topics tend to stay kicked longer, get more views, etc.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Not just a hot topic but a sizzling hot topic

:)

[Jackeens]

9. Ah, okay, thank you everyone!

:toast:

[DKRC]

18. And, you're not stupid

:toast:

IIRC took me a good long time to sort out.
Some things just click, and some things don't.

:hug:

[billyoc]

12. Flame war.

[Taitertots]

13. IT MEANS IT IS A POPULAR THREAD!!!!!

By far the greatest mistake was my friend who just found out that "I saw mommy kissing Santa" was about Daddy being Santa.

[Jackeens]

17. Funniest. Ever.

:rofl:










Was it Daddy kissing Mommy? :blush: I thought it was Santa too.

[Taitertots]

28. OMG

The children are supposed to think mommy is kissing Santa and the adults are supposed to get the joke.

The best was how is came out. He was like "damn Mommy is a hoe kissing up on Santa like that".

[donheld]

30. What happens when Mommy finds Daddy kissing Santa Claus?

:shrug::D

[scheming daemons]

14. It's means you're smokin' hot, jackeens....

;-)

[notadmblnd]

15. It's like the flaming 7's on the slot machine

you land on it and win a prize.

[MADem]

16. Hot topics, lots of people have replied/looked at the OP. NT

[rucky]

19. It means that Forkboy's dragon got loose again.

[rug]

20. It means smoking is permitted within that thread.

[Kaleko]

35. LOL

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Poor, dear, brave Jackeens. We've all been there.

'Tis ok!

[zeemike]

23. For the longest time I thought U2 was a spy plane....n/t

[SDuderstadt]

24. It means if you click on it...

your computer will burst into flames.

Something like that.

[Jackeens]

26. Oh. But I'm prepared.

Thank you :toast:

[SDuderstadt]

27. Haven't you ever heard "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"?

I'm sure you've heard of "ruggedizing" a notebook computer? Well the latest is retrofitting a laptop with entirely non-flammable materials. It's expensive (about $35,000) but I can now click on those posts with the flame symbol with no worry whatsoever. It has made my "DU experience" much more enjoyable, especially when dealing with "truthers".

[HughMoran]

31. It means that having a separate "Hot Topic" forum would be redundant

Thanks for posting this question - point made ;)





















(even if it wasn't intentional)

[SDuderstadt]

32. How about having a separate "hot pockets" forum?

[burning rain]

33. Gay interest.

~

[masuki bance]

36. delete.

[Forkboy]

37. Imminent doom!

Fleeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!