<p>Some personal thoughts/methods about this important issue: voting.</p>

<p>1- Voting on answers:</p>

<p>In this <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1492/improvement-drive-cross-validated/1494#1494">thread</a>, Peter Flom gives an answer about the low answer ratio that was found/audited in CV (at that time):</p>

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  <p>"...I think that is partially a function of the nature of statistics and the questions we get..."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Many users agreed with him and I believe this reasoning of thinking also applies (up to a certain level) to voting. Statistics is not that trivial to most of us mortals. </p>

<p>There are times which I read an well formatted answer but can't vote for it because I lack background to understand its content.</p>

<p>If I partially understand an answer, but there are comments of trusted users saying it is a good reply I am also inclined to vote for it.  </p>

<p>As far as possible I try to contribute by voting for correct and <strong>trivial</strong> answers under the following situations:</p>

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<li>It is the first answer in a thread and it does have none or few upvotes;</li>
<li>It adds something different from other existing answers and it does have none or few upvotes;</li>
</ol>

<p>Important to say is that generosity has a limit. Correct information always need to be preserved so we can keep the site's credibility.</p>

<p>2- Voting on questions:</p>

<p>Now about questions I do a lot of voting. Like to think that if I am spending my time to read a question my "null hypothesis" is initially to vote for it, unless it does not follow the site's guidelines (poor formatting, duplicate, etc.).</p>

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<p>Despite we already have here a mixture of friendly environment with good professionalism level, I agree we can improve on encouraging more users to actively participate here (voting, answering, asking, editing, chatting, flagging, etc). </p>

<p>I hope you keep helping us on this task from now on.</p>
