Slid off, and the TOC is shortened
Congratulations, you did it! The second page looks weirdly short, and my dear old "scumbag" has faded to the third page. Alas....
To answer your question from way back there, yes, that huge thread is probably a noticeable load on my server, but it's an infrequent load in computer terms. Even at its height, the server probably wasn't adding posts to the thread any faster than several minutes apart. There's actually a whole lot of unused capacity in my server, but it has to be there to handle peak loads.