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Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain Reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

 

The absolute rate of voting is very low

 

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Encourage no-account voters to upgrade to an account, using "don't lose all your anonymous votes/content!" as a better upsell than the existing workflow.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic and other external high-traffic links.

Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain Reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

The absolute rate of voting is very low

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Encourage no-account voters to upgrade to an account, using "don't lose all your anonymous votes/content!" as a better upsell than the existing workflow.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic and other external high-traffic links.

Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

The absolute rate of voting is very low

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Encourage no-account voters to upgrade to an account, using "don't lose all your anonymous votes/content!" as a better upsell than the existing workflow.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic and other external high-traffic links.

Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain Reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

The absolute rate of voting is very low

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Encourage no-account voters to upgrade to an account, using "don't lose all your anonymous votes/content!" as a better upsell than the existing workflow.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic and other external high-traffic links.

Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

The absolute rate of voting is very low

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic other external high-traffic links.

Allow No-Account visitors to somehow Vote or contribute Reputation

and / or

Gain reputation based on Views

• Getting feedback from anonymous users
• Anonymous user feedback now in testing
• Use upvote button for "Thank You" if you don't have enough rep

The relative rate of voting is very low

The absolute rate of voting is very low

[...] the idea of a database of questions and answers (where questions are being reused and helpful to others) is getting less strong. With this fast pace only recent questions activity, the platform runs the risk to turn into a helpdesk (for quick and dirty answers) rather than a knowledge base (for high quality information).

I have several 75,000-view Questions on Stack Overflow. The Questions each have only ~100 points. The accepted answers have ~100 points. The remaining good answers attract a handful of upvotes, 5-30 points.

It seems clear that MANY people are being helped by those questions and answers. But it appears that only ~100 have been.

Likely lots of Google SERP-based visitors. (can we break down View stats of by account vs. no-account?)

Find a way to reward highly-viewed search result Questions / Answers that does not involve upvotes from people who have an account and the sufficient privileges to vote.

Perhaps allow anonymous users to upvote, perhaps at a lower-per-vote-rep. Or begin rewarding reputation for Views.

Encourage no-account voters to upgrade to an account, using "don't lose all your anonymous votes/content!" as a better upsell than the existing workflow.

Something would have to be done to normalize HNQ traffic and other external high-traffic links.