This whole discussion is pretty abstract. I’d be quite interested to know what kind of content you are trying to encourage. Is it just high quality articles in general or on specific topics?
Another idea for improving the quality of content, although not necessarily directly related to questions, would be to have a Less Wrong “Magazine”. For this proposal, a certain number of articles would be accepted in every issue. The competitive nature and the existence of an editor would lead to higher quality content production. This would be rewarded by the submitted content presumably receiving more attention and prestige as people would know that more effort went into producing these articles.
This whole discussion is pretty abstract. I’d be quite interested to know what kind of content you are trying to encourage. Is it just high quality articles in general or on specific topics?
Another idea for improving the quality of content, although not necessarily directly related to questions, would be to have a Less Wrong “Magazine”. For this proposal, a certain number of articles would be accepted in every issue. The competitive nature and the existence of an editor would lead to higher quality content production. This would be rewarded by the submitted content presumably receiving more attention and prestige as people would know that more effort went into producing these articles.