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Active voter participation is a good thing. Positivity is also a good thing.

It wasn't always like this. Users lamented that it was hard to earn reputation, and that we were going to be in beta forever as a result. That suspicion was confirmed in an official site review in November 2013. Since then, community members have worked hard to change the voting culture, with the aid of statistics from Stack Exchange Data Explorer.

As for the other half of the question, why are we so positive? Well, you could turn the question around and ask, "Why is Stack Overflow so negative?" I think that a significant reason for our happiness is that we require all questions to contain working code, which ensures a minimum level of quality.

I'll conclude by reminding everyone again to vote! In particular, upvote questions with slightly crappy code, interesting questions, and reasonable questions from brand-new users, particularly those who have fewer than 15 points.

Active voter participation is a good thing. Positivity is also a good thing.

It wasn't always like this. Users lamented that it was hard to earn reputation, and that we were going to be in beta forever as a result. That suspicion was confirmed in an official site review in November 2013. Since then, community members have worked hard to change the voting culture, with the aid of statistics from Stack Exchange Data Explorer.

As for the other half of the question, why are we so positive? Well, you could turn the question around and ask, "Why is Stack Overflow so negative?" I think that a significant reason for our happiness is that we require all questions to contain working code, which ensures a minimum level of quality.

I'll conclude by reminding everyone again to vote! In particular, upvote questions with slightly crappy code, interesting questions, and reasonable questions from brand-new users, particularly those who have fewer than 15 points.

Active voter participation is a good thing. Positivity is also a good thing.

It wasn't always like this. Users lamented that it was hard to earn reputation, and that we were going to be in beta forever as a result. That suspicion was confirmed in an official site review in November 2013. Since then, community members have worked hard to change the voting culture, with the aid of statistics from Stack Exchange Data Explorer.

As for the other half of the question, why are we so positive? Well, you could turn the question around and ask, "Why is Stack Overflow so negative?" I think that a significant reason for our happiness is that we require all questions to contain working code, which ensures a minimum level of quality.

I'll conclude by reminding everyone again to vote! In particular, upvote questions with slightly crappy code, interesting questions, and reasonable questions from brand-new users, particularly those who have fewer than 15 points.

Active voter participation is a good thing. Positivity is also a good thing.

It wasn't always like this. Users lamented that it was hard to earn reputation, and that we were going to be in beta forever as a result. That suspicion was confirmed in an official site review in November 2013. Since then, community members have worked hard to change the voting culture, with the aid of statistics from Stack Exchange Data Explorer.

As for the other half of the question, why are we so positive? Well, you could turn the question around and ask, "Why is Stack Overflow so negative?" I think that a significant reason for our happiness is that we require all questions to contain working code, which ensures a minimum level of quality.

I'll conclude by reminding everyone again to vote! In particular, upvote questions with slightly crappy code, interesting questions, and reasonable questions from brand-new users, particularly those who have fewer than 15 points.