You can look at the gambling discussion section to see that not every campaign has the same standards. There’s plenty of people getting paid week after week for the most generic and frivolous kind of posts. Stake was notorious for hiring some of the worst spammers in the forum. As long as you meet the bare minimum requirements, some managers do not care about the substance or quality of a post.
Bro, I get your point but you can't stop spammers from making generic shitposts by moving a thread that is doing more good than bad to the Off-topic section because they will still find a way to do that. We can't move every thread to the off-topic section with the logic that there are some generic shitposters posting in those threads to increase their post counts to get paid by the campaign they are a part of. What are moderators for? We should report such posts to the moderators and they will deal with them.
If we talk about that specific thread we are discussing here, what those who are participating in the challenge do is make a report every day about how many push-ups they did, and that report consists of barely 50 characters, and I don't think any campaign, even if the manager doesn't care about the posts of the users, will accept posts that don't even consist of at least 100 characters. And, if a user who makes unsubstantial posts in that thread apart from the reports being made only to increase their post count should get reported to the moderators and I'm pretty sure those posts will get deleted.
Short posts with low character counts are not always spam.
That's the problem with this thread the op has no understanding of the value of that thread. Quite frankly I am surprised this hateful thread has not been deleted for the trolling of a thread that has helped the physical well being of 70 plus forum members.
I normally don't bother with meta as thread policing can be boring. But since the thread the op is attacking directly affects my health in a positive way I am talking or should I say writing here.