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Proposal: Film Making

This way we'll have those 3 questions immediately.

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Actually I didn't mean voting for bad questions, and by that artificially speeding up the process - only saving votes for good questions that have less than 10 upvotes. Maybe it sounds stupid but those 2 downvotes are kinda limiting (you need 50 rep. to suggest new site, for example) so knowing that my intention was pure, I'd be happy if I could get those downvotes cancelled. – Roy Apr 5 at 14:57
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Artificially speeding up the definition process will backfire when you're in commitment/beta. Upvote good questions, even if it's more tempting to upvote a question with score 9.

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Another symptom of a badly designed system. – Lohoris Jan 31 at 17:21
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@Lohoris badly designed is perhaps a little too strong. Sure, you can artificially speed the definition process up, but you'll risk having a lot of poor quality questions. The risk of course is that in Beta, people see high acceptance for poor quality questions, and as a result choose not to commit, or go the other way to try and make the site better. Hopefully once people realize this as a community, the focus of the topic shifts and the quality of questions slowly improves as more people contribute to close the bad questions. Symptomatic perhaps of a well designed system with flexibility. – S.Robins Feb 2 at 6:01
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I would say no of course. However, I don't think it's 100% clear to people who come in, and follow and are not familiar with Stack Exchange...what the upvoting process is etc...

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If a question with less than ten votes is a good one, it might make more sense than voting for a question that already has ten votes. If you can't use up your votes on good questions with less than ten, though, why vote for bad questions?

I guess my question is how could Area51 incentivize voting for a question that already has ten votes other than the desire to build a reputable community?

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