What is the benefit of upvotes on questions?

Question

I understand the point of downvotes on questions but I am just curious about upvotes, I know it has something to do with a good question but what makes a good question and is there something more to that?

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https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/202/what-are-points-and-how-do-they-work
Does this help?

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there's no literal benefit as far as I'm aware, just good form to upvote content that is useful and/or enjoyable. If you want someone to upvote you putting doing good work, makes sense to reciprocate.

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https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/76386/how-do-i-write-a-good-quality-question

Answer 1

You can up-vote questions that you think are good for this platform and that you would like to see more of. For example, you might vote a question because...

• it is likely to be helpful to other people, or maybe you wanted to ask the same thing.
• it is well-written; you know exactly what is being asked and what a good answer would entail.
• it shows effort, i.e. the person explains what they already checked/researched or what they already tried that went wrong.
• it's from an area of knowledge that you think should appear on PokeBase more.
• you learned something from it.

If questions like these receive votes, then people are encouraged to post more questions like them.

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You can also sort questions by votes. It factors into the "Hot" list, related questions, and when searching too.