On the other hand...
You bring up good points about market and product segregation, but classifying low effort games and low quality games as shitposting or calling someone's decent hard work, even if they are autistic, neurodiverse, or simply mentally challenged, is not only insulting to said developer, it may become a legal liability in the long run.
It's also rather unethical to call people's creations shitposting without getting consent from the creator in question.
Okay I'm done.
My point here was to give feedback. Users posting a link to download and install a Game Client of a game they do not own is shit-posting. Ex: Someone posted the Overwatch installer. The post was on the popular games page. It doesn't belong there. It takes up space and makes actual quality content less visible.
You can see the TOS here: https://itch.io/docs/legal/terms#3-acceptable-use
I don’t see any reports from your account so I’m unable to confirm if the page you saw was handled appropriately.
Well maybe you should have been more specific about your definition of what constitutes shit-posting, because from what I read in your OP, the connotation I got was that (and this is corroborated from personal experience back when I was a YouTube Premium member; I no longer am) the populist definition of 'shitposting' is posting content that intentionally denigrates an opposing ideology or denigrating a person (or meme) based on some inherent, inalterable trait, such as skin, hair, or eye color.
I've always had it against shitposting based on the above definition and more so nowadays due to the COVID hate crimes specifically waged against my ethnic community. Anyways... everyone has their own definition of some things; one man's 'shitposting' is another man's 'activism', and so, "do whatever floats your boat"!
I think you've sort of crossed the alt-right definition with the general internet definition.
In short, shitposting is just making dumb jokes, often entirely nonsensical. To use an example from a Twitter account I follow: "sucking cockingly" or "deep in gAy balls mode rn.: might not recover.."
The alt-right posts bigoted messages and says "I'm just shitposting" or "I'm just joking" as a way to seem acceptable to the general populous while dogwhistling to alt-right groups and people, and slowly radicalizing those who come into contact with it.
