I wish stackoverflow would come up with a way to make an expert's votes count more. It already has a system for a vote's value to go from 0 (you can't) to 1. I want each of Jon Skeet's votes to be worth more (or more depending on knowledge domain like C#?). Maybe the top limit is a 4x multiplier?

I would like the same for hacker news e.g. if patio11 adds the 1000th comment in a thread, I want to see it. Perhaps even individually ranked: opt in to get a clintside ordering of a discussion that uses my own up and down votes to help re-rank the comments.

Stackoverflow is frustrating because experts get much the same influence as ignorants. I am forced to read every answer and comment to find the information gold (the ranking helps, but it doesn't help enough). Best answers almost invariably are written badly and don't cover corner cases (possibly it is because I usually have to find JavaScript answers, or because JavaScript is hard to write well).

It really shouldn't be that hard. The behavior could work by question: it's fine to show the accepted answer while the original asker is maintaining the question.

But if a question gets a lot of new answers without the original answerer reacting any more, just change the algorithm to show the answer with the most votes in the pas month/year.

Perhaps just a simple linear decay function for every upvote would work. Every anniversary, a vote would lose 20% of its value, so after 5 years, a vote would expire, unless re-confirmed by the original voter (or the voter could upvote a newer, different answer).

Go to https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ and add your proposal as a question (don't have to be in actual question format, as existing examples show).

This is a problem which should be solved.