I wouldn't know, I don't spend my life on forums.
There are always new stories about Newcastle so people post new threads.
Once a thread has dropped off the front page it's not reasonable to expect people to go searching.
This forum moves much more quickly so thread's get quickly pushed down.
At a quick glance this is the only Newcastle thread, on the front page, and it's a bump.
Doesn't really wash when at the point that the cumulative thread was created (and was still high on the front page) some bozo created a Newcastle-related thread. Like I say self-moderation.
I'd say that such is the volume of Newcastle-related content on here that you'd rarely (if ever) go beyond page 2 when looking for a Newcastle thread.