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I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: lkessler commented below, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if users believe mostly good questions are being posted, then lets encourage those users to mostly voting them up?

No one would question, lkessler, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--it's content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."

Update 2: Not every question will be interesting to every user, but being "interesting" is one aspect of a good question. (I'm working to improve that aspect about one of my own right now.)

I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: lkessler commented below, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if users believe mostly good questions are being posted, then let's encourage those users to mostly voting them up?

No one would question, lkessler, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--its content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."

Update 2: Not every question will be interesting to every user, but being "interesting" is one aspect of a good question. (I'm working to improve that aspect about one of my own right now.)

I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: lkessler commented below, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if you believe mostly good questions are being posted, then why aren't you mostly voting them up?

No one would question, Louis, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--it's content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."

I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: lkessler commented below, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if users believe mostly good questions are being posted, then lets encourage those users to mostly voting them up?

No one would question, lkessler, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--it's content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."

Update 2: Not every question will be interesting to every user, but being "interesting" is one aspect of a good question. (I'm working to improve that aspect about one of my own right now.)

I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: Louis wrote, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if you believe mostly good questions are being posted, then why aren't you mostly voting them up?

No one would question, Louis, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--it's content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."

I'd rather see us focus on continuing to improve the question quality. When really good questions are posted, we are all encouraged/better able to use blogs and social media to bring awareness to the site.

I blogged one of my answers the other day, challenging others to post even better answers.

Along the lines of improving question quality ... Quite often, even though the question hasn't been voted up, answers are posted. The job to help improve the question seems secondary.

To the person who down voted this ... if the questions are so good, then explain to me WHY folks don't up vote them. You just down voted the wrong person's input. I DO up vote the questions.

Update: lkessler commented below, "I down voted."

Good QUESTIONS are the life blood of this site. They aren't easy to write. So, if you believe mostly good questions are being posted, then why aren't you mostly voting them up?

No one would question, Louis, that you are a super engaged user in this site, but even you have only up voted 52 of the 276 questions that have been asked. Even with fuzzy math, if that is what it is, then ask yourself how many experts does it take to support/answer 52 questions? (Sometime back, there was a thread in chat about how hard it was to gain cred from questions.)

At least I suspect that if we all start reading each question from the standpoint of an up-vote, we are that much more likely to take an interest in that question--it's content and its quality. Is that question really good? Can that question be improved, and how?

We have this sort-of-consensus during the beta that we won't down voting (although it apparently doesn't hold for meta discussions), including that we won't down vote questions. None of us (including me) can know how many down-votes are masquerading as"non-votes."