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    Just commenting that as of 9/9/08 the stats have shifted slightly and more questions are being ranked. Now its ~46% ranked 0 or 1, and ~17% ranked 2. Commented Sep 9, 2008 at 18:52
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    I think the real issue is that questions and answers are treated alike in the voting system. As a result, questions get compared to answered in terms of vote and most of the time, answers look more helpful and well crafted than questions. I believe the system should differentiate votes on questions and answers (I think Joel mentioned this idea in the latest podcast(#62)) Commented Jul 25, 2009 at 16:10
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    Maybe the people answering the questions are ranking them - by not voting them up? Commented Oct 2, 2009 at 2:44
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    Perhaps because the overall quality of the questions are low? Commented Nov 25, 2009 at 19:42
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    There's also strange situations where a question gets more favorites than it does votes (serverfault.com/questions/3780/…). Are we seeing redundancy due to voting up a question and favoriting a question are basically saying the same thing? Commented Dec 10, 2009 at 21:56
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    I have favorited, but not upvoted, questions that I think are not great but want to revisit later. I have even favorited questions I have downvoted, or voted to close, because I want to see what happens to them. Commented May 7, 2011 at 1:00
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    @arch check these related feature request questions: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4719/add-answer-later-tab meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69346/… Commented May 23, 2011 at 21:17
  • I always vote for questions, relatively more than for answers, but there are more answers than questions so thats why I have more answer votes. On the other hand I always try to keep updating my formatting so that the question gets better and better like here: stackoverflow.com/questions/16605834/… and here: stackoverflow.com/questions/16586469/… but still questions won't get upvotes:( I don't see what I am doing wrong here Commented May 17, 2013 at 9:46
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    I think questions need to have two types of votes. One for how well the question is written (code examples, clarity etc). This could be moderated. The second rating would be for value and relevance of the question. Now some of the relevance will be related to the number of views (could be related to title keywords) but more importantly that a question has some value to other programmers. Commented Jan 5, 2014 at 0:50
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    I've seen some questions with huge amounts of upvotes and they are usually questions to a very common problem that has yet to be asked or questions that are very uncommon about a particular subject that the majority can participate in. There's also the idea that answers take more work than questions in general, and the merit reflects that? Just some psychological analysis of human nature in the matter. Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 19:53
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    "I think this may cause real problems for people getting the badges which require +25 or +100 votes on questions." Is that really such a significant problem that it requires a solution? Commented Mar 27, 2014 at 21:03
  • 80% old questions ware having positive score where as upcoming questions are neither up voted nor down voted, take any immediate action to rate the questions as well as answers Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 18:59
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    My two cents: Many people are just quickly seeking answers. But I upvote good questions as well. Commented Oct 25, 2018 at 20:17
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    because most questions are garbage (without a stellar answer) Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 16:53
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    This is an important question and is still a problem – I got here wondering why posting an answer doesn't automatically upvote the question? Seems like a simple mechanic that would work: if it's worth answering the question is clearly valuable. Commented Apr 22, 2020 at 18:43

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