There have been lots and lots of discussions around that subject, especially on Meta Stack ExchangeMeta Stack Exchange. At some point the focus was also shifted on filtering out low quality questions, because they also often attract low quality answers. This came with a change in removing the 1-rep penalty for voting on questions, and I think the majority of users was happy with that change, even if it meant that questions would be downvoted more often, without explanation.
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/