No, mostly the same though I think the ANN thread has a more technical discussion about the site and how gamblers win things from the site. It all depends on how you rate it, if you like discussing the sports and games you like then you are also free to do so regardless of how other people rate it.
Even some people can still be considered bumping the thread to keep the thread on top for high visibility. Regardless of whether such people get paid behind the scenes or not but I'm sure you'll probably notice that there is such behavior in ANN thread. I just believe that reporting the post to a moderator for review is a solution that will help keep the board clean of spam.
Another curious thing that happens in this section is that some people are in a gambling signature campaign and you can see that they lose much more gambling in the site they advertise than what they win in the signature campaign. They are people who claim that a certain variant of the martingale helps them to make money, lol.
All gamblers do it consciously, and those who spend more money gambling than they make from signature campaign are those who want something bigger. This is a somewhat greedy mindset, but it doesn't matter because it's only about the problems gamblers have and not the forum.