[bluetomcat]

The SO community culture rewards precise, concise and direct answers to simple and popular questions like "how do you subtract 2 dates in Python". In the first years, those were the low-hanging fruit and a source of big reputation points for some people. Unpopular questions regarding an obscure bug in the user's code or perhaps a misunderstanding of the OP aren't seen as "pretty" - they require answerers to understand the context of the particular problem and will not gain them many reputation points, even if they provide a useful answer to the OP.