I just got a report marked as bad on a thread that had nothing to do with bitcoin, and was really not a serious thing in my oppinion,
Did you report it for low value or did you report it to be moved to another section?
It's been well over a year since I visited SD or IT. Has it gotten any better in either section? Are threads like the one you quoted common, or is that just an outlier in terms of quality?
AFAIK Those boards were Theymos' idea, and they don't seem to have worked very well (unlike the merit system, which in my opinion is quite good).
There is a mishmash of topics, some more interesting than others but with no common theme and little traffic.