As far as I am aware there are no threads which have no replies, therefore the NO EXCEPTIONS rule does not yet apply, as there are no EXCEPTIONS which prove the rule.
By the way, the stupid "Tripcode testing thread"[1] managed once again to break poor shiitchan and, as a side effect, progscrape.
Someone tell me how can a thread get more than 10000 replies without using the long-fixed newline exploit. The thread is browseable page by page [2], and from post 1000 onwards [3] is a ping-pong game between stupid posts and "Over 1000 thread" replies.