I'm still not sure if they're real people (but very technically ignorant), or bots.
Cause every-time you see someone praise The Great Doc or Future Tech Signatum in this thread - their account always has around 50 posts (+/-10).
If the coin is 2 months old - that means 1 praising post per day per bot

(or a hired or brainwashed copy-paster, which doesn't differ much from a bot anyway)
That's what I was thinking. I've been going through some of the older pages of this thread trying to find a common theme among them which normally indicates a shit-posting bot (or person) responsible for keeping the thread growing and on the first page of the Altcoin ANN forum.
So far I've seen one very common aspect which is that, while I've yet to find the usual single account shit-poster example, there are a lot of different accounts which routinely post in this and a few other shitcoin threads, as well as GPU mining threads.
But, then, it could just be gullible rig-owners who think they're on to the next big thing with these coins.