[gwillen]

I think you've inadvertently explained part of the problem here.

The people who have the most influence on SO are not the ones most interested in using it for questions, but the ones most interested in improving their "score". It should be obvious that this outcome is both perverse and extremely difficult to avoid.

[AdrianoZum]

Yes, those who run SO need to tune the scoring so that good answers get good scores. But it is hard to beat those who game the system.