If we discouraged asking questions, people would stop asking them and we'd have no reason to be here.

Oh, come on. You really think that people asking questions are seeking XP? I think they are seeking answers. They won't say, Gheee, my question got answered, but I only got 10 upvotes for my question, next time, I'll ask on Usenet, or I've asked 5 questions, I never got a useful answer, but I reached level 4 because of my questions. I'll keep coming back to this useful forum.

As for your list of points, it may be the consensus that that's the way people should upvote, but it isn't my perception at all. I get the impression that frontpaged questions get lots of xp, and questions about popular topics, like web questions. Regardless whether something is a FAQ, asked before, or whether they put in any effort.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Too much positive votes on questions (Seekers of Perl Wisdom) by Abigail-II
in thread Too much positive votes on questions (Seekers of Perl Wisdom) by LordWeber

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