What is meta? ×  As a way to improve the chance of the best
answers showing up closest to the question, what if you randomly
reordered all low-scoring answers posted within ten minutes of
each other?  Once a question (or answer) received enough upvotes
you could then switch back to ordering by upvotes.  This would
help reduce the impact of variations in network access/latency
while still acknowledging that, all other things being equal,
it's important to be able to answer the question relatively
quickly.  A variation: randomly reorder all answers posted
within ten minutes of the question being posted — this would
probably be easier to implement....  share|improve this question
4 Answers 4  This is a terrible way of trying to correct the
FGITW "Problem" (which isn't a problem). We should be rewarding
those who post quality answers quickly. If I get first in the
drive-thru, I don't want to be shuffled around with 5 other
customers just to make things "fake-fair".  share|improve this
answer By grouping answers