<p>Some time ago I decided to employ a policy for upvoting the questions:</p>
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<li>When I answer the question, it means that it was worth answering, so I automatically upvote it. There are some minor exceptions when there are issues with the question or it doesn't show much research from OP, but I still decide to answer with no +1, but those are rare.</li>
<li>I upvote all the questions by new users if they follow some minimum quality standards.</li>
</ul>
<p>Why? It encourages participation. It also promotes visibility for the question (both psychologically &quot;others voted for it&quot; and in terms of the recommender system behind it). The +1's also come with moderation privileges on the site, so we have more people that vote, edit, create tags, etc, so the site works better as a whole.</p>
<p>Just wanted to share it.</p>
