I've just noticed the traffic to a couple of 'contentious' posts: Where are all these visits coming from?
When I log on I always click on the icon "New Posts", then in order to clear my page I have to click on every post, many of which I am not even interested in reading, which I imagine shows as a hit; this could explain the high volume of hits on rubbish posts, if others do the same as me? By the way is there a way of not having to do that, but still clearing what comes up when I hit the "New Posts" icon.
Read the posts/threads you want then what's left (NFL now 100% more cheerleaders/ GTA V/ Gaming Thread/ Super League Grand Final/ and all the other bonkers threads click on the 'Mark Forums Read' button at the top of your screen and lo, they disappear off your screen - until some other bonkers person puts more bonkers posts on those bonkers threads