When I visit the forum (2-3 times per day) the first thing I do is click on the "New Posts" button. Then looking at the title to see if it will catch my attention, then how many people replied to it, and then how many people actually had a look at it.
When a post has one or less replies, but it's been viewed more than (say 100) times, I know that the post was for some stupid/silly/ridicules request or something in those lines.
Result, the post is ignored and I move on to the next.