Bing Webmaster Tools has warned me that my site is missing meta tags like name="description" (and possibly others) on my forum threads that have more than one page...so on page 2, page 3, etc. Why are these tags missing on those pages? For example:

Full meta tags:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/158669-not-celiacright/

Page 2 is missing meta tags:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/158669-not-celiacright/page/2/

 

Mostly to prevent Webmaster tools complaining of duplicate meta tags.

They are going to complain about SOMETHING!  You’re damned if you do and even more damned if you don’t. 

So I believe the much better solution to this would be to carry over the same meta tags and add "Page 2" or "Page 3", etc. Having no meta tags is not considered to be good SEO.

8 hours ago, sadams101 said:

So I believe the much better solution to this would be to carry over the same meta tags and add "Page 2" or "Page 3", etc. Having no meta tags is not considered to be good SEO.

As mentioned by my colleague above, they also consider duplicate meta tags to be bad SEO

They won't be duplicate if the page number is added to the tags.