user30341: I find it contradictory to the concept of upvoting that someone finds a question worthy of an answer, yet unworthy of an upvote.  
I get the impression that it is a bit egotistical to not even care to upvote.  I also get the impression that these are point seekers, who care little about evaluating and awarding credit where credit is due.  
As a longtime SO user, I believe that it would be only fair to award 1 upvote per answer (and deter the answerer from downvoting the question, naturally).

user10794: You raise an interesting point, although the concept would probably belong to every part of the Stack Exchange network, and thus might be better put at https://meta.stackexchange.com/.
You might argue that someone might answer a bad question, so upvoting a question just because it gets an answer might skew the results a bit. In fact, if every question is automatically upvoted by an answer it might conceivably push people to not answer, or answer in a comment, which could change existing behaviour.

user19409: It bothers me too that there aren't enough upvotes on Arduino SE. I am yet to come up with a good solution.
As well as upvotes, bronze badges (eg. Student) are used to encourage good questions.
One thing that doesn't work in our favour is that we have so many new users every day who ask their question, get an answer and then never stick around to pay it forward. And because they are in and out they don't read/learn the guides that SE is founded on, resulting often in poor questions. The users who do stick around are great.
To answer your question, I'm not sure if your proposal is the silver bullet to get more upvotes happening. Perhaps it is something Stack overflow could test and evaluate. Like others I suggest you post the idea on Meta.Stackexchange.
However, we all could put more effort into upvoting (me included). It was other people upvoting my first answer that inspired me to come back to the community and contribute more.

30341: <p>I find it contradictory to the concept of upvoting that someone finds a question worthy of an answer, yet unworthy of an upvote.  </p>

<p>I get the impression that it is a bit egotistical to not even care to upvote.  I also get the impression that these are point seekers, who care little about evaluating and awarding credit where credit is due.  </p>

<p>As a longtime SO user, I believe that it would be only fair to award 1 upvote per answer (and deter the answerer from downvoting the question, naturally).</p>
 10794: <p>You raise an interesting point, although the concept would probably belong to every part of the Stack Exchange network, and thus might be better put at <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/">https://meta.stackexchange.com/</a>.</p>

<p>You <em>might</em> argue that someone might answer a bad question, so upvoting a question just because it gets an answer might skew the results a bit. In fact, if every question is automatically upvoted by an answer it might conceivably push people to not answer, or answer in a comment, which could change existing behaviour.</p>
 19409: <p>It bothers me too that there aren't enough upvotes on Arduino SE. I am yet to come up with a good solution.</p>

<p>As well as upvotes, bronze badges (eg. Student) are used to encourage good questions.</p>

<p>One thing that doesn't work in our favour is that we have so many new users every day who ask their question, get an answer and then never stick around to pay it forward. And because they are in and out they don't read/learn the guides that SE is founded on, resulting often in poor questions. The users who do stick around are great.</p>

<p>To answer your question, I'm not sure if your proposal is the silver bullet to get more upvotes happening. Perhaps it is something Stack overflow could test and evaluate. Like others I suggest you post the idea on <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/.">Meta.Stackexchange</a>.</p>

<p>However, we all could put more effort into upvoting (me included). It was other people upvoting <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/a/21978/19409">my first answer</a> that inspired me to come back to the community and contribute more.</p>
