Duplicate Questions
I think this could be a by product of duplicate content. I know for me I see the same novice questions asked over and over with accepted answers. I don't really care to spend much time or effort voting up a question or result -- even if it is a good one
Duplicate questions
- Dilutes votes
- Disengages more experienced administrators
- Makes canonical answers harder to find.
- Suggests the user asking the questions is either too lazy to search or too inexperienced to understand the answers already given.
Perhaps if duplicate content was better identified, then authoritative answers may garner more votes.