so there is nothing in the code that will increase a post count more then once per actual view.

At first I was thinking it had to do with some tracking code I had in place (for giving me statistics on traffic to the forums), but I removed that and it was still seeing some cases of double view counts.

I am seeing a good number of web crawlers on the site (yahoo, google, MSN, AOL, etc.) at this time, so they could be the cause of it. I honestly hate web crawlers, and really hate the fact they ignore the robots.txt file I have setup to try to keep them to a minimum.

Blocking their IP's is a pain, that and it keeps the forums out of natural search results, so it's kind of a catch 22.
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