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I don't agree with the status-declined decision on this question.

Every big site complains about not having enough good questions:

• Meta Stack Exchange
  • Why aren't people voting for questions?
  • Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?
• StackOverflow
  • Why the backlash against poor questions?
  • Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?
• SuperUser
  • Super User attracting too many open-ended/subjective questions?
• Programmers
  • http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6233/why-are-there-so-many-closed-on-hold-and-down-voted-questions-here

And here's the one that inspired me to write this answer:

• Server Fault
  • Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals

We get too many crap questions on these sites because our best, brightest users don't ask any, or very few, good questions. Jon Skeet (34/31,418); Darin Dimitrov (35/20,819); Hans Passant (2/14,831); etc. etc. etc. I find this very hard to believe that our best users never have good questions, or things they need to look up....

#We should have badges that inspire our very excellent community to increase the signal of our signal-to-noise ratio.

But I think that the badges listed by Jon Ericson in the original post aren't good enough. A score of 1 or more is not enough. These badges should be tied to one of:

1. A higher threshold for counting for the badge. Perhaps n questions with 3 or more votes, 5 or more, etc.
2. Having more answers than questions. Perhaps badges like:

• Student - Bronze - Asked first question and answered one (or two?) questions with each scoring of 1 or more
• Sophomore - Silver - Asked 10 questions and answered 10 (or 20?) questions with each scoring of 1 or more
• Socrates - Gold - Asked 50 questions and answered 50 (or 100?) questions with each scoring 1 or more
• These wouldn't have to be self answers, just ensure that the user isn't simply being a help vampire. Though they would be allowed to be self answers.

3. Some combination of 1 and 2. The numbers could be played with.