Hmm, interesting. This warrants a bit more detail to fully understand, so please bear with me.
Originally hiccup:
Was at: Home>>Forums
Went to: Home>>Forums>>Peripherals & Multimedia>>Peripherals>>sophos antivirus
Saw: The original post and the two replies
Each time, on exiting all of the above, would still see the (1)
The use of the >> brackets is somewhat confusing to me, because I tend to read those as clicks. But given your description of results, that wasn't the case here. You could only have seen that by clicking on the thread title at the
Forum List level. That bypassed the pointer and kept the unread marker intact. So far, so good.
Got rid of it by:
Was at: Home>>Forums
Went to: Home>>Forums>>Peripherals & Multimedia>>Peripherals>>Erasing & Formatting thumbdrive
On exiting all of the above, the (1) was gone
In this case the last two brackets in the 'Went To' series must have represented clicks, because (A) you couldn't have seen the
Erasing & formatting thumbdrive thread at the
Forum List level (where it wasn't listed). But instead of clicking on the pointer to the moved thread within
Peripherals required to see the "This topic has been moved" notice, you say you (B) opened another thread (
Erasing & formatting thumbdrive). After exiting the latter the unread marker associated with the pointer had vanished both within
Peripherals and at the
Forum List level.
Correct?
If so, that's somewhat aberrant (read: buggy) behavior, because in this scenario the unread thread/pointer still hasn't been read. However, we do know that you actually opened the pointer at one time, because you report seeing the "This topic has been moved" notice. Since this would have dispelled the unread marker associated with it, the question remaining is exactly
when that happened in your sequence of events...