Curators

Much of the effort towards improving question quality goes towards sanctioning bad questions-- closure, review, etc. There is a lot of room for greater recognition of good questions.

On our site, we have experimented with ways to do this in the form of curators. Curators seek out exceptional questions and answers ("pearls"), recognize them in a chat room, and sometimes add bounties. Typically, these are high rep users who are domain experts in their tags, who notice underrated posts and like to help get them the attention they deserve.

These roles could benefit from official support.

• We could have a curated 'best of' section with enhanced visibility on the main site, similar to featured questions.
• We could have a periodic top list or newsletter recognizing notable posts, similar to how we had site blogs.
• Curators could get access to limited, not-to-be-abused free bounties to promote unanswered pearl questions.

Curator would be a volunteer role, appointed by site moderators, and supervised by the same to prevent abuse.

Curators

Much of the effort towards improving question quality goes towards sanctioning bad questions-- closure, review, etc. There is a lot of room for greater recognition of good questions.

On our site, we have experimented with ways to do this in the form of curators. Curators seek out exceptional questions and answers ("pearls"), recognize them in a chat room, and sometimes add bounties. Typically, these are high rep users who are domain experts in their tags, who notice underrated posts and like to help get them the attention they deserve.

These roles could benefit from official support.

• We could have a curated 'best of' section with enhanced visibility on the main site, similar to featured questions.
• We could have a periodic top list or newsletter recognizing notable posts, similar to how we had site blogs.
• Curators could get access to limited, not-to-be-abused free bounties to promote unanswered pearl questions.

Curator would be a volunteer role, appointed by site moderators, and supervised by the same to prevent abuse.

Curators

Much of the effort towards improving question quality goes towards sanctioning bad questions-- closure, review, etc. There is a lot of room for greater recognition of good questions.

On our site, we have experimented with ways to do this in the form of curators. Curators seek out exceptional questions and answers ("pearls"), recognize them in a chat room, and sometimes add bounties. Typically, these are high rep users who are domain experts in their tags, who notice underrated posts and like to help get them the attention they deserve.

These roles could benefit from official support.

• We could have a curated 'best of' section with enhanced visibility on the main site, similar to featured questions.
• We could have a periodic top list or newsletter recognizing notable posts, similar to how we had site blogs.
• Curators could get access to limited, not-to-be-abused free bounties to promote unanswered pearl questions.
• There are surely more ideas.

Curators

Much of the effort towards improving question quality goes towards sanctioning bad questions-- closure, review, etc. There is a lot of room for greater recognition of good questions.

On our site, we have experimented with ways to do this in the form of curators. Curators seek out exceptional questions and answers ("pearls"), recognize them in a chat room, and sometimes add bounties. Typically, these are high rep users who are domain experts in their tags, who notice underrated posts and like to help get them the attention they deserve.

These roles could benefit from official support.

• We could have a curated 'best of' section with enhanced visibility on the main site, similar to featured questions.
• We could have a periodic top list or newsletter recognizing notable posts, similar to how we had site blogs.
• Curators could get access to limited, not-to-be-abused free bounties to promote unanswered pearl questions.

Curator would be a volunteer role, appointed by site moderators, and supervised by the same to prevent abuse.