Not that I care either way (I think I brofisted one post total, and that was to show support to soneone who wasn't a codexer in the first place), but brofists on the codex have always been dumb. If people are worried about contentless +1/agree posts flooding the codex, that's more of an indication of general poster quality. There are quite a few forums/communities on the net where "+1 posts" never became a problem ...
I've never seen a public forum where people don't chime in to repeat the same thing 800 times, which is essentially +1. Brofists solve that problem, to an extent, by allowing posters to endorse whoever best sums up their own opinion -- until the thread reaches 999 pages, that is, and you do start getting endless repeats because reading the whole thing is crazy. Anyway, if you don't want +1, but also don't want fisting, you make the userbase smaller and start culling the herd based on the ratio of increasing post-count.
Then those forums suck and are not worth following in the first place. Even if you agree 100% with a post, there's no need to share that with the world by making a content-free post. When you make your next post about the subject (with actual content in the post, mind), you can mention your agreement as a side note. Everything else is just adding noise -- and there was plenty of this noise on these forums even with the brofists.
tl;dr: if you have a good poster-base, it doesn't matter whether you have brofists or not. If you don't have a good userbase... welp. And yeah, I realize that people repeating the same points is unavoidable on large forums with tens of thousands of users, which is why I dislike them.
