I see this sort of thing regularly. In the forum page a topic will be bumped up by a poster [name appearing to right]... you go to the post or topic and the bumper's post is just not there. An example, same in FF n Opera:
http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/windows-nt-2000-xp/threads/28182/password-recovery-on-windows-xp-home-sp2#post1835562
gerbil 216 Industrious Poster
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
These are the result of posts that got deleted by one of the moderators. Someone posts some spam or inappropriate post, it bumps up the thread, a lurking moderator reads it, deletes it, but then the thread remains bumped up. Unfortunately, this tends to happen to old threads too.
As a moderator, I can see the deleted posts, and that thread you linked to has three deleted spam posts at the end of it.
gerbil 216 Industrious Poster
Ah, thanks for that, Mike. A pity that the bump action does not get reset....
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
I've also noticed that every since Dani upgraded to the new forums. There were a lot of threads that indicated Dani was the last poster, but if you go to the last post in the thread she is not there.
deceptikon 1,790 Code Sniper Team Colleague Featured Poster
A pity that the bump action does not get reset....
We considered updating those particular fields upon deleting the last post of a thread, but at the time decided it was too expensive.
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