The people who were honoring Totalbiscuit by talking about where they first heard of him or some of their favorite videos just get steamrolled by the ~6 trolls who just wanted to shitpost in the thread.
So instead of them getting taken care of by mods, the entire thread just gets closed. I'm not sure whats so hard about just enforcing the rules that were established literally on page 1.
I sure as hell hope all the mods realize when you don't bother to moderate a thread and instead just close it, you're sending the message to the asshole trolls that they should keep doing what they are doing.