Here’s a link to a closed thread called: FriendlyCurmudgeon banned for trolling. This thread is not about that poster, the ban, or the reasons for it. Instead it just happens to be the thread which caused a question to pop into my head which I’ll share here:
How many posts are in the linked thread?
That thread has one post the way we normally count them, but Discourse counts the closing message (the one with the lock beside it) as a post as well, so it says there are two.
I looked at the page for a while and I considered that. But the note by the lock does not look like a post. Now, if they’d wanted to they could have done it that way–with the avatar all the way to the left followed by name, title (if applicable), then the date at the far right with the lock and “CLOSED” as the body of the post.
But they didn’t do it that way.
They can call a single post two posts if that trips their triggers, just like I can call my piss champagne if I want to. But it doesn’t make it so.
Yah… I’m not exactly on board with Discourse’s counting method.
Discourse’s counting seems logical to me.
The notification about closing the thread is a special kind of post, like a mod note or warning.
Ask Mr. Owl.
Asking Mr. Owl is for suckers.
Who??
I was going to but I figured I already knew what he’d say.
“1…2…,…,.THRREE! Thrree posts to get to the end of a SDMB thread!”
ETA: Yes, that TV ad was the inspiration for the thread’s title.
The world may never know.
The End
The End. Yes, I think.
I still say DiscoBot is double counting posts in that thread. Possibly in some nefarious post-padding quid-pro-quo scheme with Colibri. 
And I’m not a fan of the slip-sliding post numbering, so, there. I’ve said that. Hoera.
It’s fine with me if this stays open or is closed.
It must really drive you nuts that when you start a thread, that automatically counts as one view, even tho most people don’t view their own posts.
Don’t ask Mr. Cow, Mr. Fox, or Mr. Turtle. Good memories. Good play, @burpo.
Indeedy-doody it does. I was going to start a thread on it but… well, you know.
I have never seen Mr. Cow or Mr. Fox and the rest of the dialogue was shorter and the ending was different in the version I remember!
Thanks, Bullitt!! that was boss!
(Why does Mr. Fox have shades?)
Because the sun is very bright.
ISWYDT! 
You started it, so thank you!!! Nicely played.
It was fun finding that old commercial. I hadn’t seen it in years.