20 votes
Do not base reputation on questions
Awarding reputation for questions directly leads to the site being "overflown" with "fun" questions which serve mostly the purpose of gaining reputation. It seems this problem could have a trivial solution - not gaining any reputation for votes on questions at all. You might s... more
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declined
we already have a forced community wiki when the # of answers exceeds 30. Nobody gets any rep from that Q or any of its answers after that. This addresses 90% of the problem.
stienman
After questions get 25 answers they go to community wiki mode and no one gets additional rep. Further, daily rep is limited to 200, so the reputation gain from a single question of this nature is actually not significant.
Also you'll note that questions typically get upvoted less than answers already. It's much more profitable to answer questions than it is to post questions.
blorgbeard
Note also my (duplicate of this, rejected) suggestion here: http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/20883
amertner
I disagree. Creating good questions can be a lot of effort and should be rewarded. Just don't award many or any points for questions that don't pose a technical problem, as suggested here: http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/42497
Suma
Re: Admin comment from #34955
> the catch-22 is that a lot of people really get off on those questions, ...
Then there perhaps could be some other way to "take off", or the limits needed for basic operations lower?
Perhaps people with high enough reputation could be able to award reputation? (Leading in result to "social" instead of "technical" solution of the problem)