Yes, we don't go to the first post but when we reach the updates late, you have to find the new update in the newly added pages. The same thing which I said for above reply.
I don't like the idea of a pinned post at the top of all pages. You are prone to congestion and redundancy when browsing the thread. If anything, a simple solution is the editing of the title (e.g. <origText> [UPDATE <xx.xx.xx>]) and of the first post.See how people are behaving in this campaign thread, and how others are making efforts to tell new people that there had been an update which they should follow!!
OP's NEW UPDATE
PEOPLE telling OTHER PEOPLE to CHECK UPDATE
[/quote]This could have been solved with the changing of the title. Suffixed with "[applications closed]", most would see it and not bother replying.