I've turned off quick links for everybody, as I'm more and more certain that it's strategic combinations of old-time, non-forum-marking-read people hitting the index page that's causing our mysql to end up stacking up.
FYI/FWIW, I haven't seen any of the oddities since you made that change. Seems like a reasonable theory to me! Thanks.
a) possible? Yes, but b) I think we thought about it a long while back and decided it wasn't worth the overhead. The final verdict was "we'd rather just have you come here and look for new stuff.
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