Its the General forum. There is little to no genuinely beneficial information that is learned and shared here. Its largely trolling, dunking, and mocking...by thread starters and thread responders.
This could be stopped by those who run the site, by ensuring the specific topic forums are utilized instead of General being a dumping ground.

Its popular because it is a dumping ground with a lot of eyeballs. Move this thread to the Mechanics forum and it will have 10% of the responses...which will disincentivize both people who start this sort of thread and people who snarkily respond to this sort of thread.