When you are on a discussion page that has live autosave, a live thanks and cookies, there are safe gaurds built into the program.
For instance you may go your own thread 20 times in a session and your post count does not go up. The program knows that the starter of the thread is "revisiting" its own thread and so does not count that look see as a bonified "view".
Further...the program also does not recognize new posts from the same computer. It will look past the post as a new post as long as you are timed into the session. The cookie will keep your post in its memory untill you have cleared that session.
If you make a post, either a new thread or a post to an existing thread, it will not show in bold letters in the header functions untill you have removed yourself from Bonsainut, went over to MSNBC to become in formed of how well the economy is doing, hit the can and read the current issue of Bonsai Focus, catch supper and then come back to the computer and hit the X key to take you off of whatever browser you are using. Open your browser and then comeback to bonsainut and voila, all your crap will now be in the newposts area and in bold.