As seen recently on HN, the average quality of its posts is decreasing over the time. WTH is this thing doing on HN?

You can submit and vote, so people assume it's just like a reddit or something, I guess. The bigger problem is that it gets voted on, because it's "fun/cool".

But indeed it doesn't really have something to do here, it's more in the "sensational" tech news. Or not even.