I only want to add that there are good reasons for voting a question above 10 votes, one being that questions with more votes will help shape what primary interests of the site will be. It will help show what the community will likely want to see on the site, the types of questions that will be asked and answered the most. It's true that the vote might be better spend upvoting other questions, but if we attract enough quality followers that will happen automatically.
Right now we don't even have followers proposing questions, we won't make it to the next phase without five more questions being proposed minimum, and that's not including questions asked that will be offtopic.