All this weirdness on FR is attributable to smoking one of the servers during the Palin/Plugs debate. (Jim said it actually smoked)
I’m not sure if the burned out hulk has been disposed of or not but all the slowness and bizarre thread behavior started that night.
The place has been off and on wack since John installed the new software with all the silly tabs. I still do not understand why something got fixed that was not broken