Trike wrote:

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that doesn't help though, because it's supposed to be "hot topic with new posts" but yet it stays there regardless, even with no new posts.
so if you adblock it, you will never know if that thread has new posts.

I had no problem AdBlocking the image, and it doesn't show up anymore. Actually, what I did was just block the "hot" image and left the "hotnew" image... I don't care whether it's a shield or the thermometer, I just want to be able to distinguish threads with new posts, whether they're hot or not.

Frankly, I don't see the point in having an image to indicate what basically amounts to the thread post count when the thread post count appears in a nearby column... are they trying to say people are too stupid to tell which numbers are higher than others? A more meaningful metric would actually be number of posts over a given recent period of time... A hot thread might be something that's had 20 posts in the last hour, but if it has 100 total posts but no one has posted to it in a week, why is it still hot? Seems like "dead topic" is more accurate to me.