Why they do it....On the old message boards, if someone posted something and then removed it it would still say that the folder had a post in it (as it does now) so when you click on it as a new folder there is really nothing in there.
The Difference: On the old boards you could not skip taht folder and lose the bug, so the only way to get around it was to post a REAL post so that the buggy(invisible post) could be ignored. On the new boards, this isn't an issue. Clicking "Mark Topic as Read" will take care of any deleted posts, as well as the regular ones...But many people will NOT accept this and still keep posting these stupid pain in the ass BS crock of yak dung "bug" posts, so we really have to mark the folder as read twice as often as we did previously. Quite annoying really.
