Your argument doesn't make any sense. Regardless of whether people were modding the game or not you'd still be notified every time people had conversation in the thread. The fact that the conversation happens to be about modding has no actual effect on your ability to determine whether the game has been updated or not. As a matter of fact, the fact consistent conversation happens in the thread is helping you keep up with updates. Every time someone posts something you get a notification in the top right; hovering over it will show you whether the version number for the game has went up. If you use the latest updates tab to keep up to date with game updates then your entire argument is pointless.
I'm not picking up what you are throwing down. I am aware that whenever someone posts in a thread I get a notification, just like you quoting my post gave me a notification. The past month or so, I've been getting several notifications on this thread which is of no interest to me.
If there was a modding thread, notifications would have been down significantly, and I could take more time scrolling through what comments there were. Also, I have seen threads where someone would post a new version of a game, and the OP doesn't get updated. I'm guessing mods don't hover all the threads as there's so many of them, so unless a mod is active in a thread, you might have to ping them to update the OP. But it's fine. I have stopped following this thread, so have at her boss!