> Ahh... That explains why delete is slower to come. Quick question on that... If a thread has twenty-four posts, of which numbers sixteen through eighteen are hidden, how many will be on page one, and how many will be on page two? Will it move posts twenty-one through twenty-three to page one? Or will page one only contain seventeen posts? 
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> If it moves them, will it automatically go to page two when Posted is above twenty, despite those posts not actually being onpage two anymore? 

If there are 20 posts per page, then post1-post20 (20 posts) will be on the first page and post21-post24 (4 posts) will be on the second page. Hidden or not.

However, mods/users will be able to delete instead of just hide. Deleting will update pagination so that there are still 20 posts per page.

If I keep "Hide" around, then it'll be for the niche case where a post needs to be made invisible to users but visible to mods and the user that made the post. Like perhaps the post is going to be discussed in a report before it's deleted. In which case I'd rather hidden posts be rendered as "Post Hidden" rather than not rendering at all.

Something like that, at least. I'm pretty sensitive about deletion in general, so it's not a trivial feature for me.