<p>In past few months, there are a devastatingly few number of users that cast up votes, and many of users aren't coming back to site, and existing users don't have so much reputation, because no one is voting up great questions / answers.</p>

<p>So... let me start like this..</p>

<p><a href="https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;filter=all">THIS IS REALLY DEVASTATING</a></p>

<p>We all need to vote up users and try to answer their questions, so we can get more users answering / asking questions. Main reason I'm writing this post is because this is great site, but we need new regular users that are going to vote and ask questions. I think it all came down to 20-30 active users, and rest of users aren't so active.</p>

<p>I'm relatively new to site. I've decided to use it because it helped me a lot, and I'm doing my best to answer the questions. My main concern is also that my answers also don't get any vote up.</p>

<p>So... I'll let it all out. I think that main concern that we need to focus on is motivation.</p>

<p>WE NEED TO MOTIVATE OTHERS TO VOTE. And we all can do that if we vote other users up.</p>

<p>That's from my perspective. Even one vote up motivates you to go further.</p>

<p>I think that I explained what I mean. :) It's all in VOTE UP!</p>

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