1999 March 9, Esko Illi [username], “Re: I have returned”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica[1] (Usenet):
You shitposters, take some advice: either you start to post something worth reading, or optionally get the hell out of here, hunt down James and tell him personally Metallica sucks, ok?
2001 March 3, Dana Phillips, “Re: Brad is an ass bandit. and he eats shit 2. And has a shit moustache. And it is not fake but real shit he has ate Re: I thiink that Steve Furbish is GAY and wants me badly was Re: KEN (NY) TO BE ON CABLE NEWS SHOW”, in alt.law-enforcement[2] (Usenet):
Oe[sic] shit. I will be so happy to dump this shitposter.
2001 June 22, HWM [username], “Re: mass cancellations or message scrambling”, in alt.folklore.urban[3] (Usenet):
No, you get it totally wrong. We were here first. *You* started it. No shitposts - no need to complain. The netcopping will continue, and has escalated to the level where nonprofessionals have taken the clue-by-four in their inexperienced hands. And they hit the inexperienced shitposters.
2003 October 2, WolfWolf [username], “Re: Talking Points - Bush and Putin”, in soc.culture.spain[4] (Usenet):
You are a shitposter!
2004 March 10, C.M.R., “As Always”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.boston-celtics[5] (Usenet):
This team wins a few games AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, everybody starts offendinmg[sic] everybody, like if they know a SHIT, yeh you BASTARD, YEH YOUUU SHITPOSTER.
2008 July 6, Eric Gisse, “Re: Gravitational Order”, in rec.org.mensa[6] (Usenet):
Why are you morons encouraging this shitposter?
2010 December 5, rmacfarl [username], “Re: The Future, was: preliminary RFD: end moderation”, in talk.origins[7] (Usenet):
Talkrational is an interesting experiment in discussion board democracy, but much (too much) of the on-line discussion is navel gazing about how to get the balance between letting everyone have a voice and keeping a lid on trolls aka shitposters.
2012 May 5, Argue Kate [username], “Re: ONE THING WE CAN BE SURE OF”, in alt.slack.goathead[8] (Usenet):
You're always responding to trolls and people that fuck with you you're a shitposter
2013 January 14, Deepfriedice [username], “Re: Winduh 8 Piles (TM) cannot do a safe fast shutdown”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk[9] (Usenet):
If you are a troll, just leave this newsgroup - it already has enough shitposters without you.
2021 March 11, “The Columnist review – middle class writer on a murder spree”, in The Guardian[10]:
Umbilically fed by her phone on a diet of shitposter abuse, she finally snaps when she realises her neighbour – partial to some Zwarte Piet himself – is one of her tormentors.
2021 October 30, “Saved For Later: TikTok’s joy-miners and ‘shitposters’ and Instagram's 'cursed' interiors”, in The Guardian[11]:
2022 April 27, EJ Dickson, “Meet the Shitposter Who Started a Right-Wing Moral Panic About the Snickers Dick Vein”, in Rolling Stone[12]:
