Instead of posting funny stories, gifs, pictures , etc in the dashboard you can make a thread titled " Funhouse ". This can be where anything funny that you find on the internet or stories can be posted.
This could help people refrain from posting unnecessary threads in the dashboard.
I kind off like this idea. It's pretty nice. And if people are going to be LQ then why not just make it so when they post there, the post doesn't count towards the overall posts.