I just read through five pages of the thread (And I'm set to 40 posts per page, meaning that's almost 20 normal pages) and came to the shocking conclusion that there were only four points of discussion in those all those pages and three of those were basically "This. So awesome!!11!!111!!".
I'm not entirely sure how you can justify a thread with less productive discussion than spam.
I decided to also check that "What you're watching" thread also which did marginally better with six occurrences and with some actual discussion involved.
One thing I did notice is that if other people start discussing then others will start discussing things also, since most of the discussions occurred on the same page in both threads.