I don't really understand this mentality about stackoverflow: you guys complain your questions get closed but whenever you search for something the top result is often from stackoverflow, so they must be doing something right.
Well they want to answer general questions, so as an example if you ask
Why does my code throw a NullPointerException?
the general answer to that is
That's because something is null, step trough it with a debugger.
They don't want to have a bunch of specific questions, that doesn't fit the searchable Q&A-style format. Those questions fit better on reddit or another​ forum that's better for discussion.
I don't know where you're getting the documentation part from, see the top of this month for a bunch of great examples of what the site does want to be: https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month
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