I normally peruse the forums by clicking on Forums at the top to see everything that's been posted. Today after browsing through the first page (which was normal length), the second one was only three posts long. The third was longer but only by a bit. I waited an hour and now the second page is longer (11 posts) and the third looks to be normal.
Mike, today there was a major spam flood (is that how you call it?). After those were deleted, page lists became shorter. Excuse me for my terrible explaination but hopefully staff will respond:)
Meanwhile I don't know how forums work and never been a good coder; I think what happened is that those spam are not deleted but put on probation. They are there, but not visible.
I reported spam this morning so like s. ayalp said: " They are there, but not visible." so that must be it.
Thanks for being on top of things.
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