RE: Is there any value in shitposting?

How many on facebook or twitter seek quality posts? NO ONE.

It should be about fun and engagement etc.

As long as the focus is quality vs. shit posts it will likely remain devoid of those who aren't poor and don't consider themselves authors.

I don't need to write a carefully crafted post, because I'm not an author and I'm not poor.

We could reward people for engagement and traffic instead and it would be a better metric.