>>22779890tripcodes are for attentionwhores in general, the idea they were "intended" for respected members of the community is some dumb retcon from /v/ermin that got mad their generals would be dominated by tripfags for years before /vg/ existed and they were too stupid to install 4chanx.
it used to be super convenient to filter tripfags with 4chanx, but now attentionwhores just spam the same images all the time instead and you have to manually filter those instead of a single tripcode.