No, it's the little orange push pin icon that mods "stick" to a thread to keep it near the top of the "Hot" search results. It's virtually the only way a thread can get seen by readers who use the default Hot search. I'm guessing that 90% of all new threads receive no more than a few dozen upvotes. A few make it to the "Rising" search list and then die on the vine with at most a few hundred views.
No, it's the little orange push pin icon that mods "stick" to a thread to keep it near the top of the "Hot" search results. It's virtually the only way a thread can get seen by readers who use the default Hot search. I'm guessing that 90% of all new threads receive no more than a few dozen upvotes. A few make it to the "Rising" search list and then die on the vine with at most a few hundred views.
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