My understanding is that &quot;Ask HN&quot; questions have a different &quot;gravity&quot; and sink more slowly. That said, I suspect that the average quality of an &quot;Ask HN&quot; question is not much better than the average non-spam submission...maybe worse since meta-discussions are fairly common and lead to dull comments like mine here.<p>Even non-meta questions can be rather lazy...I mean a couple of throw away sentences that don&#x27;t provide much context suggest that it&#x27;s probably not that important.<p>For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11160872" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11160872</a><p>Versus: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11149361" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11149361</a><p>While I don&#x27;t think of &quot;Ask HN&quot; as StackOverflow, there&#x27;s something to the response &quot;What &lt;code&gt; have you tried?&quot; and the idea that a two sentence question doesn&#x27;t necessarily deserve a long detailed comprehensive answer.