RSS Feed/News Are "Jump to New" and "Read marking data lifetime" related?

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Occasionally when I click on a thread title from a list of threads I am taken to the top of the thread rather than the first unread post in that thread. If I then click "Jump to New" I am taken to what appears to be the first unread post. Why is this?

My initial suspicion was because the first unread post exceeded the number of days in the "Read marking data lifetime" value. However the fact that post in the threads are still marked as "NEW" and my first unread post can still be located...

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