As far as I have understand basic/simple/trivial/naive questions on EL&U are being systematically downvoted while on stackoverflow there is a hot competition to correct or improve and then answer them.
On stackoverflow you can see many questions being edited by one of those who has answered it (I have done that), or on comments users are asking for more detail to answer them.
It seems that on stackoverflow users search for interesting questions to answer but here user search for uninteresting questions to vote down and keep front page clean.
What makes these two communities so different?
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" which is explained in first 10 pages of any Java book and he/she doesn't know how to read a JavaDoc before asking (see question edits): stackoverflow.com/questions/11273440/…