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.
One of the more unpleasant reminders of the nature of People on the Internet was watching referrals come in the night of Lawler's heart attack and seeing how many people were interested in the statutory rape charge...
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