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The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.

The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.

The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.

The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.

The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site doesn't has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.

The other answers here are already very good. I don't think this site has a voting problem so much as it has a boring-question problem. Our questions-per-day average is pretty low, and, as others have noted, a lot of the questions are "drive-by" Font Identification or Beginner Photoshop questions. Voting, editing, other-community-actions won't turn boring questions into interesting ones.

When we do have new questions or answers that are actually interesting, they get voted up. We have a handful new(ish) users who have gained a fair amount of rep in just a few months. Getting people to vote on good content isn't the problem.

I don't have an answer for what's wrong with this site, but it doesn't feel like a vibrant designer-oriented community. Several of the top meta questions deal with this directly by addressing site scope, how to reach out to designers (not SO users), etc.

Your two meta posts are addressing symptoms without identifying a root problem. Encouraging more voting won't make existing questions more interesting. No amount of editing can make certain questions more interesting. Driving the answered-question rate higher (already at ~96%) won't bring better questions.