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.
I added a li'l navigational thingy to the index page to make it a li'l easier to read forums - click on it and it takes you to the oldest thread with the newest content.
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