Timeline for How to deal with bad questions? VOTE!
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| Jul 2, 2023 at 11:17 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Re "no reward to voting": There are badges, even a gold badge. It is not much of a reward, but enough to be a problem with other badges (e.g., robo reviewers in the review queues). ([New attention.].) | |
| Jul 11, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | napstablook | I agree, ultimately the apathy is because the system doesn't incentivize. People like to answer mostly for rep (low rep users) | |
| May 22, 2013 at 21:12 | vote | accept | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | ||
| Oct 13, 2012 at 23:39 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | You've made a bunch of good points... A few comments on some of them: Your point is still valid, but I don't think it takes genius to recognize good posts, especially since most SysAdmins have a pretty wide range of experience. I read almost all questions, so "how to find good stuff to vote for" isn't an issue for me. For someone who's looking to cast some votes, a really easy way to find worthwhile questions or answers is to look at the answers from any high-rep user. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 6:22 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | On the topic of incentive, when I reached 15K the only difference I noticed since 10K was that I am now able to protect questions (which I don't think I've done yet). If/when I get to 20K I'll receive one new "power", although it's one that I'll be less likely to use. In other words, for all real practical purposes I'll be no better off at 20K than I was at 10K. For that matter, I was actually better of before 10K because at least then I didn't have to see all the deleted crap. As for voting, I vote honestly, which I believe is far more important than the number of votes I cast. | |
| Oct 7, 2012 at 16:33 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @iain I agree, and I do my part. When it comes to getting others to do their part, however, as I said, I think that's a problem that ultimately needs to SE team to address if we want any meaningful progress. | |
| Oct 7, 2012 at 9:54 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | Voting should be considered a social good. If we want the site to succeed we need more people involved. The only way to do this is to encourage them with voting. | |
| Oct 6, 2012 at 23:58 | history | answered | HopelessN00b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |