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That hasn't proven, in reality, to be an issue on any of the Q&A sites like the Stack Exchange network or Quora.
The best answers do rise to the top when the accepted answer proves too simplistic or insufficient.
We'll indicate the accepted answer, but the answers will be sorted by score... so it may be that the accepted answer is actually the third highest.
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Could we order the thread by time until the point at which a 'best' (or winning) answer is supplied, and then switch the order to votes at the point that the best answer has been selected?
I guess that the issue with that is that if selecting a 'best' answer effectively stops voting on a thread, if someone comes along with a better answer (e.g. in terms of the seat post example) 6 months later, that answer can't pick up the up votes...
Not quite sure where I'm taking that TBH, feels like I'm playing devils advocate a bit, as I'm not sure what the solution looks like.