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Mark posted about this maybe two or three years ago, but we seem to be regressing and he told me it's ok to post a reminder.

If you take the time and effort to answer a question, then the strongest likelihood is that it's worth an up vote. After all, why not? When the OP returns the next day to see some answers and they see they have accrued rep, they will rejoice and this may help push down our drive-by rate.

When I look at the 'new' page, or sometimes the 'active' page, I like to look at questions that have received up votes first. Perhaps others follow the same pattern or perhaps not, but a question with up votes will attract viewers and that gives your stuff more exposure.

I know there are corner cases out there where you can write an answer and not up vote the question because it doesn't qualify, but these are rare and some of what we have shows a great answer to a great question and the person answering didn't up vote.

I expect Mark will be along in due course to explain more about why up voting questions is good for the site. In the meantime, please be reminded that once you input your answer to pause and consider awarding an up vote to the question.


Adding after Mark's comment: And Tweet your stuff too!

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    We even have a name for this "Gayot's postulate": travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3097/…
    – JonathanReez Mod
    Aug 9, 2017 at 15:55
  • See the linked question ;) If you want upvotes for your answer, you presumably want to upvote the question too. More upvotes = more likely to be on the hot list as well = more traffic = more questions for us, yay!
    – Mark Mayo
    Aug 10, 2017 at 0:48
  • @GayotFow there's literally no question in the question?? :)
    – Mark Mayo
    Aug 10, 2017 at 8:49
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    @MarkMayo - Sure there is: "After all, why not?". You could post an answer disagreeing with Gayot's postulate...
    – AndyT
    Aug 10, 2017 at 11:35
  • @AndyT I assumed that was a rhetorical part, given that he knows I agree with him.
    – Mark Mayo
    Aug 13, 2017 at 4:31
  • travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3097/… - answers are all in here. No sense in repeating
    – Mark Mayo
    Aug 17, 2017 at 1:29

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