Trivial replies

I have noticed dozens of trivial replies in the topic of Chess Notation consisting of only one or two characters. When I hear of a new reply in that topic, my first thought is "why bother?".

Can this abuse be curtailed? TIA

Hmm. I finally figured out that you were talking about a blog post that Chess.com CEO Erik made 17 years ago- https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-notation

I saw the posts you were talking about. They didn't strike me as abusive. They were just trivial. They didn't add anything to the discussion. I think that people often make trivial posts so that they can follow a topic. (I think the default setting is to automatically follow any topic that they post in.)

If you are bothered by the notifications you are getting after a trivial post, perhaps you could unfollow the post.

Unfortunately, AI has not yet evolved to the point where it can screen out such trivial posts for you.

Yes. There is a checkbox for that at the top of the thread. But I think most people don't use it.