No one likes shit posts except probably you too are a shit poster.
Don't feed them with your shit posts too, if you want to minimize their impacts in the forum. You can not stop them, simply you can't, so the best thing you can do is don't feed them and help them to bump their shit threads.
In only some boards, there is a bump score to reduce effects of bumping from shit posters. In most of boards, if you bump a shit thread, effect is big.
Similarly, don't feed the troll!
Now the big question here is how do you approach such posts?
One wrong and most common approach is creating a thread to report such users. The reason is simple, we complain every now and then about shit posters on many boards, when we could very much assist moderators to spot them instead of creating a thread for someone that simply just posted shit or used AI content.
I see it differently.
Works from a single user can be not accurate, or simply not enough for moderators to do their job. If a report is made publicly, and get supports from other forum members, there would be more evidence to use ban hammer on shit posters.
Some shit posters have habit of creating new shit threads for discussions. They do this with many purposes.
- Some campaign managers don't count posts after like page 5, page 10, page 100 or 200. It is good but not enough and shit posters know how to easily avoid it: by creating new shit threads for getting post count from managers.
- They do this to show that they're productive in creating threads, that can be counted as good contribution to their signature campaigns.
The bottom line is, if a thread is low in quality, you can easily see low quality posters joining it while quality posters in community usually ignore those threads. Consequently effects from such shit threads are smaller than how it looks. Imagine that most of thread participants are from 'friends' or 'farms', companies pay money for their campaign participants won't happy with these employees if they know the truth.
