Gadzooks, I believe many great questions do lacking because the asker is not very respected in their opinion, not that well known to the collective, not established in the collective, or the question goes against the personal ethics or believe of the question reader. I have seen many questions that teased the brain or challenged the usual way of thinking but go stale while some relationship question that is basically conjecture and not earthshaking in any way have a bounty of Atta boys. To me there is really no rhyme or reason on how questions are deemed GQ worthy. I think if a question gets you to think outside-the-box be it a generator of a lot of discussion or not then it is a good question, be it about aliens, time travel, reincarnation, religion, commerce, etc. But…….that is just me.