I totally agree, maybe you know about King Scorpio, same league like BADecker. He's a troll from our german section but luckily he's not much active anymore because he's busy with his failed shitcoin (?). But we have some additional idiots, also from a shitposting perspective.
There was already borderline plagiarism and the affected account was told how to quote properly but he just doesn't care. There are tons more of derailing comments. We really don't need such negative-value trolls and should find a decetralized solution to discourage them. Could also be used for shitposters.

We should really think about how to solve that issue and a decentralized solution to get rid of their troll- and spamposts could be some sort of a de-merit system.
Yes, it has been discussed very controversely but if we do it right, we could get rid of some problems caused by low-quality posting, trolls, topic-derailing and similar.

How could we achieve a fair solution, difficult to get abused:

• Peg sendable de-Merit to earned Merit. For every earned Merit, 0.25 spendable de-Merit will be earned and earned de-Merit could be spent for low-quality posts, misleading content or troll spam. Pegging de-Merit to earned Merit would make sure to allocate a steady flow of spendable de-Merit to accounts knowing how to evaluate quality posts (and shitposts).
• If a low-quality post receives 1 de-Merit, his Merit score will be reduced by 1 and so on
• Ranking down is activated
• Negative total Merit count = posting disabled (new Forum Rank "Shitposter"  )

It would be a decentralized way how to solve the issue, don't require action from mods, would discourage bad posting and would be a 100% community driven consensus.