> No reason to sage a thread that's on the top of the thread list

Actually there is a good reason to, in fact several. One being the link field already has 'sage' written in it because you always use sage anyway; another being maybe someone posted a new thread beforehand, which was mysteriously deleted (less plausible); or maybe you just don't want an ID attached to your post. There's plenty more reasons to sage the top thread, I'll let you think of them.

And this board isn't dead. >:|