I'm sure you can look through the post history of applicants and see how their posts are mainly in Games & Rounds, Altcoin airdrops, Off-topic or some other trash farm-filled board of the forum.
Off-topic is always filled with shitposts like "What is your motto in life?", "Are you open minded?" or people quoting philosopher or other pretentious crap just to make it look like they're not shitposting. And threads that ask for "best this and that".
Politics is always filled with "Do you this and that" shitpost.
These crap just makes me want to participate less in the discussion and just buries good threads.
I agree and I've had those sections on ignore since probably 2015 when I joined the forum. I assume people post there just to rank up easily and have nothing to say about bitcoin. Still, I think off topic threads give the forum more character, because some people like to talk about politics and all that stuff. This particular forum is bad, though, because of the account farmers and people who don't understand or write English.
I've been reporting shitposters like a madman lately, and they usually lay their eggs in the huge spam threads. They're pretty easy to spot and I suspect a lot of them are farming accounts in addition to sig spamming.