Check your settings. When Jim suggested we temporarily remove some of our preferences to speed things up (the site was very slow for awhile), I did that. It helped. After the election, I went back in to my “manage blocks” and I think I must have given the ok to the “popular posts.” These are simply old posts that were popular. (I think) I’ve kinda wondered why I was seeing old stuff at the top of my sidebar and was really thrown when I saw the Fred post. It occurred to me what I must have done and I went into my account and changed my preferences. You can choose not to have “popular posts” show up at all or you can move it around so it suits you.
Oh I’m aware of that; I was referring to an old thread popping up at the top of most popular. Must be a different algorithm than I’m used to. Thanks though.