delay in appearing in the thread

I am frequently getting a message when post answer to forums which says

<i>Your message was posted successfully, but there will be a short delay before it is viewable in the thread.</i>

is this a new feature or bug? because moment I click on return to thread I can see my answer in the thread...but before that , on the screen where I see this message, my number of posts is shown correctly but points are shown as zero.