You can't really "encourage more questions", per se; not at least in any sustainable way. But getting more questions is a nice side effect of promoting healthy growth overall. To make this site ...

You shouldn't really overly "encourage" the routine use of bounties across the board. Bounties are designed to be used as a last resort. You are supposed to start by putting the effort into getting ...

I wrote blog post addressing the issues of seeding and asking the first questions on a new site: Asking the First Questions

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I already see a lot of version-specific questions tagged [dd3.5] [dd4.0], etc. So to stay consistent, I would suggesting sticking to [dd], in the generic case.

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Close (and re-open) votes indeed age away (after 4 days). The premise is that, if they didn't, the occasional close-votes that tend to accumulate randomly would close many, many questions over a long ...

If the entire purpose of the question is to create a list, it is better to post the entries as separate answers. That way each individual contribution can be vetted (voted, so the 'more popular' ...

Great Q&A: Quest and Answers

I could go either way on this. The question is properly asked; you couldn't have known that the value of the thread would be in the list of answers of relatively equal significance. Had you known, I ...