As a user who strives to earn reputation through good questions and answers, seeing this happen actually bothers me. We let perfectly good questions and answers that took users time and effort to create and put together, just slip by, almost ignored.

Let's take a look at "Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names". It was a well formed question, and then the user josh3736 put in a good detailed answer. How many votes did he get? 6.

Now lets look at "How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up?". I hate to use names, but, Bryan here got 173 upvotes for writing "cd -". The rest of his answer was added by another user.

Bryan earned 600 rep for 3 characters, and a space. Josh earned 60 rep, for putting his time and effort in, and writing out a huge paragraph on the topic.

So what is this issue here? Users who put in more effort are not being rewarded properly. We should be focusing on giving out upvotes to users who put time, effort, and hard work into putting out the best and fullest answer they could, as opposed to giving and undetailed answer so much attention.

Super User needs to focus on rewarding those who deserve it.

As Jeff Atwood said in the comments, we should be looking and reviewing First Question and First Answers, in order to help keep new users earn reputation for good answers.

As a user who strives to earn reputation through good questions and answers, seeing this happen actually bothers me. We let perfectly good questions and answers that took users time and effort to create and put together, just slip by, almost ignored.

Let's take a look at "Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names". It was a well formed question, and then the user josh3736 put in a good detailed answer. How many votes did he get? 6.

Now lets look at "How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up?". I hate to use names, but, Bryan here got 173 upvotes for writing "cd -". The rest of his answer was added by another user.

Bryan earned 600 rep for 3 characters, and a space. Josh earned 60 rep, for putting his time and effort in, and writing out a huge paragraph on the topic.

So what is this issue here? Users who put in more effort are not being rewarded properly. We should be focusing on giving out upvotes to users who put time, effort, and hard work into putting out the best and fullest answer they could, as opposed to giving and undetailed answer so much attention.

Super User needs to focus on rewarding those who deserve it.

As Jeff Atwood said in the comments, we should be looking and reviewing First Question and First Answers, in order to help keep new users earn reputation for good answers.

As a user who strives to earn reputation through good questions and answers, seeing this happen actually bothers me. We let perfectly good questions and answers that took users time and effort to create and put together, just slip by, almost ignored.

Let's take a look at "Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names". It was a well formed question, and then the user josh3736 put in a good detailed answer. How many votes did he get? 6.

Now lets look at "How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up?". I hate to use names, but, Bryan here got 173 upvotes for writing "cd -". The rest of his answer was added by another user.

Bryan earned 600 rep for 3 characters, and a space. Josh earned 60 rep, for putting his time and effort in, and writing out a huge paragraph on the topic.

So what is this issue here? Users who put in more effort are not being rewarded properly. We should be focusing on giving out upvotes to users who put time, effort, and hard work into putting out the best and fullest answer they could, as opposed to giving and undetailed answer so much attention.

Super User needs to focus on rewarding those who deserve it.

As a user who strives to earn reputation through good questions and answers, seeing this happen actually bothers me. We let perfectly good questions and answers that took users time and effort to create and put together, just slip by, almost ignored.

Let's take a look at "Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names". It was a well formed question, and then the user josh3736 put in a good detailed answer. How many votes did he get? 6.

Now lets look at "How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up?". I hate to use names, but, Bryan here got 173 upvotes for writing "cd -". The rest of his answer was added by another user.

Bryan earned 600 rep for 3 characters, and a space. Josh earned 60 rep, for putting his time and effort in, and writing out a huge paragraph on the topic.

So what is this issue here? Users who put in more effort are not being rewarded properly. We should be focusing on giving out upvotes to users who put time, effort, and hard work into putting out the best and fullest answer they could, as opposed to giving and undetailed answer so much attention.

Super User needs to focus on rewarding those who deserve it.

As Jeff Atwood said in the comments, we should be looking and reviewing First Question and First Answers, in order to help keep new users earn reputation for good answers.