Have you tried visiting the board? I'm not sure you have. That because if you did you would have seen by now that there are some members who even post on that board some constructive post that earn a good number merit.  The off topic board isn't as useless as you said, as it's a board for discussion not relating to the forum, Bitcoin, economy or cryptocurrency at large. Such post might be health, food, transportation or whatever you might consider not amongst those I listed.