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Increase reputation awarded for questions

Yes I say that we should go ahead with this change. Apart from simply correctly appreciating the massive amount of effort put into writing good challenges, this would also be a very nice added ...
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Increase reputation awarded for questions

Absolutely PPCG is different from most other sites on Stack Exchange in that it is not a Q+A site; in fact, many questions that ask for help (other than "how to golf in ____") are marked as ...
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Increase reputation awarded for questions

Yes, but only if downvotes scale to -4 Peter Taylor brought up a very good point in a comment: There are many questions which would change from being worth negative rep to positive rep should this ...
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32 votes

Increase reputation awarded for questions

I'm late to this party, so I probably won't get many votes. Upvotes +15, Downvotes -5 For each one challenge, approximately 9.9 solutions are written. It seems obvious to me that challenges are far ...
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Incentives for answering old questions

Run a monthly contest We have an annual contest which attracts quite a bit of attention to the winners inherently, and a bit more because it uses bounties for prizes. It's too process-heavy to run ...
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16 votes

Increase reputation awarded for questions

One time bonus for Nice Questions This probably won't be implemented. But it seems to be exactly what all you want: Easy questions getting a lot of upvotes won't be affected much. Questions having a ...
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15 votes

Non-Trivial Answers get too few upvotes

Run a contest The chat room is now open for nominations https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/61232/biweekly-contest-for-undervoted-answers This idea is inspired/copied from Peter Taylor's answer to ...
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12 votes

Incentives for answering old questions

Clarify how to handle changing standards Visibility and incentives aside, answering old questions is awkward because of changing site standards. I've given up on submissions I started to write ...
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11 votes

Increase reputation awarded for questions

As of yesterday, November 13th 2019, this is now in effect network wide: We’re changing the reputation earned from getting a question upvote to ten points, making it equal to the reputation earned ...
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1 vote

Increase reputation awarded for questions

Yes But not in tips questions. Tips questions don't fit the classic PPCG question and are also quite easy to write, as compared to a challenge. Just look at the general structure. This is my general ...
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