I'm not really an active user here but let me give you some insight.

Speaking generally here, but hile votes have some standard meanings like "This was helpful", "This was good", a user can potentially give any meaning to the vote.

I can upvote because "I never thought about this!" or because "this question is really well-exposed"; even formatting can influence voting. I'd never upvote a good question with a very bad formatting. I'd even fix it first and then upvote it.

But this is just one side of the matter. You say that you've noticed more votes on questions and less on answers, sometimes I've seen the exact opposite especially when the question is controversial or a so-so question and the answer is very good. The voters will ignore the question (since it's not really nice) and upvote the answer to be outstanding especially for such a question.

Then you have to consider who saw the question and when, whether some edits were applied, etc. This are all possibilities but they are not supposed to represent what happens every time. There are many variables.

The same about the question you linked to: Starring a question doesn't necessarily mean you liked the question. Sometimes I've starred questions because they were really controversial and had a strong feedback (even negative) and I wanted to be notified of further changes. Starring it accomplishes that, because then in your profile you get the notification for the starred questions. I consider it more of a bookmark. Of course, I also star nice and outstanding questions.

Hope that helps. :)

I'm not really an active user here but let me give you some insight.

Speaking generally here, but while votes have some standard meanings like "This was helpful", "This was good", a user can potentially give any meaning to the vote.

I can upvote because "I never thought about this!" or because "this question is really well-exposed"; even formatting can influence voting. I'd never upvote a good question with a very bad formatting. I'd even fix it first and then upvote it.

But this is just one side of the matter. You say that you've noticed more votes on questions and less on answers, sometimes I've seen the exact opposite especially when the question is controversial or a so-so question and the answer is very good. The voters will ignore the question (since it's not really nice) and upvote the answer to be outstanding especially for such a question.

Then you have to consider who saw the question and when, whether some edits were applied, etc. This are all possibilities but they are not supposed to represent what happens every time. There are many variables.

The same about the question you linked to: Starring a question doesn't necessarily mean you liked the question. Sometimes I've starred questions because they were really controversial and had a strong feedback (even negative) and I wanted to be notified of further changes. Starring it accomplishes that, because then in your profile you get the notification for the starred questions. I consider it more of a bookmark. Of course, I also star nice and outstanding questions.

Hope that helps. :)