Because Jeff Atwood decided:
It's not a complete sentence, so it doesn't need to be capitalized
and got downvoted to -45 as of now.
I hope the SE team will reconsider this design decision. For a long time, lowercase punctuation-free fragments were here and there around over the sites:
what's your ... question? be specific
possible duplicate of
Things have improved in other areas, but not yet in the footer.
See also: Why is the footer copyright declaration in lowercase?