[phyrrus9]

What I'd hate to see though is every post having hide tags and the minimum being set to something unreasonable, or even worse, users making a bunch of lounge spam to get the required number.

The minimum post requirement can be set In a manner where It warrants a quality reply. That Is, an equilibrium of nothing too excessive yet a figure that's not classed as spam. The OP can Increase It (If need be) according to the quality of his/her thread.

Having the option of Increasing the requirement, will encourage HQ posts.

Perhaps make the hide tags not tell the user how many posts are needed?

As long as It's well within reason, this may In fact work quite well.

Seems like we've hammered it out then. If staff/@Oni is open to this, I'm happy to make the necessary modifications to the standard hide tag plugin