"I have got my tin foil hat on for this thread. It has four pages but no matter what I click (even manually putting the URL for page four in) I get sent to page 3! Obviously some super secret info on page 4 the 'THEY' don't want us to know....
... or the forum code is a bit stuffed."
It happens on quite a few threads when it gets to the max number of posts, it seems to create the net page even though nothing has been posted on it.
Re SF pushing the boundaries, it is all a calculated risk / reward and to an outsider it appears dangerous but because SF tend to have been there or close to it before, they are better at making risky judgement calls.