well morfius,
quote-AO now has pop up ads because JP needs to find someway of making money from this site, in order to support the costs of running it.
This is NOt true, and if i may ask , how did you know that?

unused> well, Those threads you specify has been deleted and also no longer in AO data base
also,
quote -oh and, some threads have 1 or several replys but no views.
How could this be possible? how can a thread be replied, have some replies without been veiwed? you need to veiw a Thread before reply to it, and as lond as that thread has been veiwed , it MUST be recorded in the data base, has been veiwed. you can check out lots of Threads/posts in here and you will see the Thread starter, #of replies/ and #of veiws, last reply. How many times a thread has been veiwed.
here is an example, go to the "Disscussion Forum" http://www.antionline.com/index.php?action=forums and select any Thread in der, an example with "Tutorial Fofum "http://www.antionline.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=59 here will will find all the # of veiws, replies,thread starter, last reply, etc.
So Unused> how can a Thread has a reply and NEVER been veiwed?

I hope this clear it out