I just thought of another reason.. The further down you get in a thread the more changes and file writes it has to do - for every reply it has to change the main board file and any reply that is in the 'thread' of that reply.

The threads you guys are having on the prediction rating stuff is making it work over time... Maybe that's why it seems slow - Lets look at one posted yesterday called Board (6761.html) - it wrote the file 6761.html and also had to modify the main board and posts 6722,6735,6738,6746,6752,6756,& 6757 - So give it a little time and be patient while it does its work.