Some people will just enter the forum and read what someone on page 1 posted and quote it and what he will post at page 6 or 7 or more. What would have been posted repeatedly on page 1, 2, or 3. Some people will even be posting what they have posted before on another way.
Please after page 3, why not locking the thread again on gambling board? It may no be done for all threads, but moderators can easily see some threads to lock instead of repetitive posts.
Believe me, even on a single page thread or should I say 2 pages, many users wouldn’t go through all the proceeding comments in that thread. Why is that?
There is a possibility that you would have catch an interest from the very first line or paragraph you read and would like to air your views on it. It could even be a comment by someone but that’s how you keep the discussion going.
The gambling board remains somewhere you can truly discuss as, discussions there are often disjointed and continuous. Disjointed in the sense that, you get to talk about specific games, specific rules to the game, specific matches, specific approaches and all that. It’s continuous in the sense that, new facts or ways to argue the game arises as the discussion progresses.
Now, having to lock such thread only creates room for the next thread that, wouldn’t be talking about anything different but rather, would make even a previously discussed idea seem new. After all, it’s a new thread and that changes nothing. Hence, not doing nothing by not locking some really old and long threads is an effective way of doing something by not doing nothing.
