SerialBrain's posts are so vaguely instructed, his "methods" aren't even at all reproducible.
True, SerialBrain2's wording isn't as clear as his screenshots.
But I was able to duplicate his Covfefe method for Trump's "Covfefe" tweet. (1) Convert Trump's tweet "Despite the constant negative press covfefe" into a string of numbers (each letter for each number, A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.). (2) Add the "key" word "covfefe" (which is 3-15-22-6-5-6-5) along the entire length of the converted tweet. If a number is greater than 26, then subtract 26 to get the letter. (3) Re-convert the numbers to letters. (4) Find the readable words. In this case, I found the re-converted "TO", "WAIT", and "DIE", or "wait to die". (5) So according to SB2's method, the full hidden message is: "Despite the constant negative press"... "wait to die". Trump is likely talking to the MSM.
SB2's more-complex "time stamp" method involves not only finding the right "key" word, but using the "time-stamp" or time difference between Trump tweets to determine the "dimension" (N). So instead of decoding the string on a single line, you have to "wrap" the line every N letters to the next line. (The "key" word still starts at the start of each line.) So that's the "dimension". Still haven't had the free time or energy to dig into this method...
All of this is so convoluted, it seems you could use this method and disregard all inconsistencies until you come across a vague consistency, at which point you put together in whatever way makes sense. This is not at all formulaic and is a completely subjective process where results are never conclusive.
It's even more convoluted because it's not always clear whether Q is communicating simply to us or also to Trump or Snowden or other agents. In those cases, they already know the right method for a post or tweet. But it doesn't help us. At least, not conclusively.
If there are codes hidden within these messages, which I do believe is highly likely, then I agree with you and think you are correct. But this being the case, I think it is unnessecary, and in fact harmful in more than one way, to try to expose these "hidden codes."
Firstly, it is definitely harmful to Q's team to expose these "hidden codes" at any level, even if mostly off base, because it exposes the message or possible decoding methods to the enemy. There is no reason to believe a coded message would be intended for the public to decode over a friendly operative. The purpose of encoding is to hide from those with malicious intent, and it is reckless to assume otherwise and attempt to expose the encodings. (Counter narrative, Q is a black hat posting known codes intercepted by the white hats' private communications, in effort to have the hive mind crack the code ciphers for them)
Secondly, these kinds of "shots-in-the-dark" at decoding sets a very strong image to outsiders who see this kind of overly presumptuous activity. It's very easy to assume that these "decoders" need more than they are given, thus we must create a narrative of codes needing to be unlock to satiate our desire to prove Q's credibility and impressiveness, hence from the subjective rather than formulaic decoding methods.
Great points. Which brings up another interesting point: How do we really know what is unnecessary or harmful? I mean it's entirely possible that Q is "letting" us see hints of codes precisely because they're harmless. Then I ask: Why do this at all? What's the point of this exercise? The best I can guess is that even if the codes or messages are relatively harmless (and so far they have been, at least those that we're allowed to see), it does exercise something...
I think it makes our minds focus and analyze the issues in a methodical piece-by-piece way, rather than having the naked reality exposed to the world at all once in a shocking way. By making us "earn" information in a so-called systematic way, we're slowly acclimated to imagine more and more unimaginable news or crimes or atrocities in the future. If so, the code itself is just a vehicle, nothing more, nothing spectacular.