That's what you get for getting mixed up in the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue.
Seriously, I know why this happened. As a test, I recent turned off the automatic updating of the posts counts - posts are still counted, but they don't update automatically. I think it was slowly things down when posting new messages and replies. Has anyone noticed an improvement over the last few days? Anyway I will try to set up a system in which updates the post counts once an hour or something. In the meantime, you can click here to manually update the post counts, but the new counts won't show up until a thread is rebuilt (ie. new reply, etc.) Hope that makes sense....