I'm pretty sure that the join doesn't even do what you want. If there are 100 records in table a with a null qid and 100 records in table b with a null qid, then the join as written should make a cross join and give 10,000 results for those records. If you look at the following code and run the examples, I think that the last one is probably more the result set you intended:
create table #test1 (id int identity, qid int)
create table #test2 (id int identity, qid int)
Insert #test1 (qid)
select null
union all
select null
union all
select 1
union all
select 2
union all
select null
Insert #test2 (qid)
select null
union all
select null
union all
select 1
union all
select 3
union all
select null
select * from #test2 t2
join #test1 t1 on t2.qid = t1.qid
select * from #test2 t2
join #test1 t1 on isnull(t2.qid, 0) = isnull(t1.qid, 0)
select * from #test2 t2
join #test1 t1 on
t1.qid = t2.qid OR ( t1.qid IS NULL AND t2.qid IS NULL )
select t2.id, t2.qid, t1.id, t1.qid from #test2 t2
join #test1 t1 on t2.qid = t1.qid
union all
select null, null,id, qid from #test1 where qid is null
union all
select id, qid, null, null from #test2 where qid is null