It's a valid concern, and thanks for bringing it up. Just trying to ease your mind a bit. If you haven't already, I would PM Molly B the details. If there is a crack in the system we can fall into, she probably wants to hear about it.
Hopefully the bulk of the membership complies with the Reply etiquette Molly mentioned, but here's something that I have found to be useful in the meantime. The forum default for posts displayed per page is 25. You have the ability to lower that number in your personal settings. I personally would rather load more pages than get a cramp in my scroll finger trying to navigate through one long page. Just an FYI.