I think a message board is supposed to be some type of place like a lounge bar where people can have fun together. As much as I appreciate decent basketball discussion, I don't think we should make it a requirement and impose it on everyone. Some posters only make very brief posts (like my bro MJ) but they still bring the goods imho. However, it is really exasperating when you see someone keeps dropping meaningless posts with few words in each of them one after another as though they get rewarded a deal of money for every little increase of their post count.
Therefore, like my friend Cully wrote in his novel "return to vegas", you the reader choose what to read and what not to. If you don't like one certain poster, or posters, you can simply put them on ingore-list so they won't ever appear again to pollute your eyes. I've never put anyone on ignore though. I'm a believer of "diversity" and I can pretty much live with things I don't like (which's kinda like a very basic survival skill when you're living under the commies dictatorship, imho). They're all members of the ST family and I can generously treat them like my naughty nephews and nieces