Questions don't count towards a user's badge score. This might make sense on the main sites, which thrive primarily through *answers* contributed by regular users.

But those same regular users post relevant *questions* (as well as answers) on the meta sites, contributing **bug reports, feature requests, and initiating important discussions** about e.g. policy, thereby *advancing the entire community and providing valuable input for the continued improvement of the SE software*.

For [meta-tag:bug], [meta-tag:feature-request] and [meta-tag:discussion], the opening post (question) is ***at least** as important a contribution* to the site as any answer. Most of the top-rated [meta-tag:support] questions are also important contributions and discuss e.g. moderation policy. Simpler, less relevant support questions don't get a lot of upvotes anyway.

That contributing questions on meta is an important metric for overall meta/community contribution is shown by their inclusion e.g. in moderator election pages.

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**Questions scores on meta sites**, at least the child metas, should therefore **count towards the tag scores**, equal to answers.


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