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I agree that GIS has a problem with low voting, but first we need to address the implicit assumption that questions with high views deserve upvotes. Having had some advance warning of this initiative …

Yes, GIS should participate in Winter Bash 2014.

Our site does not have a specific homework policy, nor does this appear to have been discussed before. Other sites do have such policies: see the math FAQ on homework for instance. On yet another si …

I'm concerned about questions that have little to do with GIS but they involve somehow getting server or database software to run. Typical examples ask for help in communicating with servers, such as …

This situation can be problematic but the proposed comments could backfire for the simple reason that they attack the person asking the question rather than addressing the question itself. That would …

Yes, voting has dipped about 20% since mid-January. It did that in 2011 and 2012, too. :-) I, too, have an impression that we are receiving a spate of poor and uninteresting questions. Such trends …

I agree with @Jeff Atwood that we can't do much about this particular complaint (in the OP) without specific examples, but even in their absence this is a useful conversation to have and there are eff …

I strongly agree: changes to code in questions should be limited to formatting it as code (adding a few spaces of indentation using the Preformatted text tool), nothing more. Readers who think such c …

It is kind of you to notice and to ask. I had not been very active here in the last four years or so and wore the moderator's diamond as a reminder of the past rather than as a tool to help the site. …

(I think you're correct in observing that many deserving questions aren't voted up, but the one you link to is not a typical example. In particular, any question that requires two pages of code in or …

OK, let's look at the top ten. I will paraphrase them and won't hold any punches. Opening and extracting data from Shapefiles?: "We have these GIS data and have no clue how to use them. Help!" Doe …

Tally of the voting Lighter circles and larger fonts correspond to larger counts. Rows designate votes for first, second, and third places. Columns designate candidates (using both initials where a …

This is a great question. Many people come here with questions that may be seeking just a tweak in their code. That's fine and it's wonderful that we have community members who can provide that serv …

Voting on comments can send a gentle message concerning the sense of the community to interlocutors in a discussion. (One source of this information is a Meta SO FAQ post on comment voting.) …

These are system-wide requirements developed for SO and applied without modification to all other StackExchange sites. All badges will become possible (indeed, plentiful) when one or both of two thin …