[-nameless]

Admittedly, this place is getting more popular, and currently, it would seem that the amount of views required on your thread are somewhat small. My point is, the stats required for your thread to be hot are small compared to the forum's popularity.
I'm thinking a new applicable number of views required for your thread to be marked as hot could be... 250?
Keeping the numbers/requirements to a high standard will increase the importance of a hot thread. They can also be meaningful to a member as it is an indication that their thread has done well. That meaningfulness is somewhat gone when basically any regular thread can be hot.

[Inori]

Currently, I don't think the "hot thread" element of MyBB is very important to the forum. If we break something like 100k members, then it could become an important aspect, but for the time being, most users just look for new posts.

[Oni]

I didn't realize people paid attention to that still. I can probably change it quite easily. Thanks for the suggestion!